The European Commission will be in the spotlight later today as it unveils crucial reports likely to pave the way for Turkey's eventual membership of the European Union.
Widely leaked in the press, the reports are expected to recommend that the EU opens negotiations with Turkey, but that no date is actually set.
One of the main reasons for this, according to EU sources, is so that the planned referendum in France next year on the EU Constitution does not become tangled up in the T...
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