The European Commission is set to approve a framework for negotiations with Turkey today, reaffirming commitments already taken towards the country.
According to the document, which constitutes the main guiding principles on which accession talks will be started, the goal remains full membership - not to occur before 2014 though, Reuters reports.
It is to reiterate the decisions taken by the European Council in December last year, when member states agreed that Turkey had fulfille...
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