EU Slows Turkey’s Membership Talks
December 15th, 2006 by
European Union leaders formally endorsed the decision to partially freeze Turkey’s membership talks at a summit Thursday that focused on how quickly — and how far — the bloc should expand.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said all 25 leaders “support the decision unanimously” to slow down talks with Turkey over its refusal to honor a pact to open its ports and airports to EU member Cyprus.
The leaders reiterated that Turkey and other EU hopefuls must comply with EU membership criteria — signaling that two years after taking in 10 new, mostly eastern European members, the path to the European Union will become considerably tougher.
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