The European Commission adopted on Wednesday (29 June) the guidelines on which accession negotiations with Turkey will be based, with enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn defining them as the most severe adopted so far by the EU executive.
The document confirms that the goal of the accession negotiations remains full membership of the EU for Turkey.
However "these negotiations are an open-ended process, the outcome of which cannot be guaranteed beforehand", the text says.
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