Germany does not expect EU-Turkey deal on Monday
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European positions are too far apart to  reach an agreement on Monday on how to penalize Turkey for  failing to normalize trade with Cyprus, German Foreign Minister  Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a television interview.
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BRUSSELS The European Commission will not set special conditions for Turkey when it decides on Wednesday whether to recommend opening membership talks with Ankara, the commission president, Romano Prodi, said on Tuesday.
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The European Union (EU) and Turkeyreached an agreement on Friday to start talks next year on the country&#39;s membership of the bloc.
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MUNICH, Germany, Sept 10  - Turkey is unlikely to join the European Union before 2015, EU enlargement commissioner Guenter Verheugen said in an interview to be published here Saturday.
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The European Union edged closer Monday to giving Turkey the green light on membership talks, but jitters over bringing the relatively poor Muslim nation into the fold prevented a decision on a starting date.
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Germany will support the start of European Union membership talks with Turkey if the EU Commission gives the go-ahead next month, a government spokesman said Friday.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will press Turkey to fulfill its obligations to the European Union if it wants its membership talks with the bloc to succeed when she begins her two day visit here.
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The European Union will not set Turkey any fresh conditions to fulfil in order to gain a date to start entry talks with the bloc, EU Enlargement Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said on Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 13 (IPS) - EU leaders will debate Turkey's move to join  the bloc this week but it remains unclear when the negotiations  on Turkey's entry can start, and what conditions the bloc  may attach to them.
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The European Union yesterday refused a Franco-German request to lift its arms embargo on China amid fierce disagreements over the country&#39;s human rights record and military ambitions.
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Papers in Germany assess the European Commission's decision not to take action against Berlin and Paris for breaching budget rules while in other papers debate is raging on Turkey's European credentials.
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DAMASCUS -- The European Union wants to sign a trade and aid pact that may ease Syria's diplomatic isolation, but only if Damascus agrees to renounce weapons of mass destruction, Germany's foreign minister said yesterday.
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EU nations rejected a &quot;vague&quot; Turkish offer to ease a trade dispute with Cyprus and thereby stop the European Union discussing a partial freeze of Turkey's membership talks, officials said.
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The European Union said on Wednesday  it will not sign a pact on ties with Serbia this week as  planned, after Belgrade's nationalist prime minister blocked  the move.
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BERLIN - The German government said yesterday it will not budge from its refusal to send troops to Iraq, reinforcing its position after its Defence Minister appeared to suggest that Berlin might one day consider a deployment.
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France will come under renewed pressure on Tuesday to soften its stance on Turkey's bid to join the European Union when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan drops in on a Franco-German summit in Berlin.
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France hopes to be able to  announce an agreement about a simplified management structure  for European defense group EADS at a summit meeting on Monday,  but Germany is in no hurry to strike a deal.