EU foreign ministers are struggling to reach agreement over the number of chapters in Turkey's EU negotiating book to be frozen over the Cyprus issue, while also bickering over a new deadline for Ankara to normalise relations with Nicosia.
"I personally don't expect that we will reach a conclusion today," German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told ARD television before a difficult meeting on the fate of Turkey's EU membership talks on Monday (11 December).
Diplomats pr...
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