The EU Commission recommended on Wednesday a partial suspension of Turkey's negotiations after it failed to open its ports to EU member Cyprus. Photo by www.europeunited.org
The EU Commission recommended a partial suspension of Turkey's negotiations after it failed to open its ports Cyprus.
EU Commission officials therefore proposed to freeze eight of the 35 "chapters" or policy areas into which the negotiations are divided.
The final decision to freeze talks based on this recommendation should be taken by the EU summit in the middle of December.
The recommendation had been brought forward by one week from 6 December in an effort to maintain confidentiality after talks brokered by the EU's Finnish presidency on the Cyprus trade issue failed on Monday, the EUobserver commented.
Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul recently rejected the deadline imposed by the EU for the normalization of relations with Nicosia.