EU heavyweights travel to İstanbul for seminar

Senior European Union officials will attend a seminar on Turkey-EU relations opening in İstanbul today. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Joost Lagendijk, who heads the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, are among participants of the fifth Bosphorus Conference on EU-Turkey Relations. Foreign Minister Ali Babacan will also attend the high-level event, jointly organized by the British Council, the... [read full story]