The next few months are the last opportunity for Turkey to take steps that could influence the european Commissionu0092s recommendation in October on whether the Copenhagen political criteria have been met, and therefore whether to open accession negotiations, with the European Council due to...

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The European Unionu0092s relation with Turkey is a permanent question of relations between the West and the Orient. The EU finally gave Turkey the status of a membership candidate at its Helsinki European Council in 1999. The Commissionu0092s opinion of 6 October 2004 that opens the EU door to...

The paper lists all the transition periods negotiated by the 10 acceding countries in the final stage of accession negotiations with the European Union at the end of 2002. These transition periods are derogations to EU law and are limited in duration. They have been accorded to the future Member...

This paper analyses the duties and rights that the Treaty of Accession allocates to the 10 new member states of the European Union on the basis of the common European law. Since the EU of the current 15 member states did not sufficiently adjust the European institutions, the structure of...