Macedonia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. …

The next few months are the last opportunity for Turkey to take steps that could influence the european Commissionu0092 …

that Turkey is too big, too poor, has too dangerous borders and is insufficiently u0091Europeanu0092 to join the Union …. Turkey was officially recognised as an EU candidate in December 1999, and in December 2002, the European Council announced … that if Turkey met its political u0091Copenhagenu0092 criteria by the end of 2004 it would open negotiations without delay …

reforms in Turkey triggered by EU membership; and (iii) migration in response to the free movement of workers. Overall, the … creation. Turkey experiences larger economic gains than the EU: consumption per capita is estimated to rise by about 4% as a … result of accession to the internal market and free movement of labour. If Turkey would succeed in reforming its domestic …