The EU's Commissioner for Enlargement has promised that next month's assessment report on Turkish membership of the Union will be "thorough, factual and fair".
Günter Verheugen told MEPs on Tuesday (31 August) that the report, which will look at whether Ankara has met the political criteria for joining the 25-nation bloc, will also contain "one or two surprises".
The Commissioner went on to say that he was against the idea, proposed recently by the Dutch government's advisory coun...
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