EU ambassadors have given the green light for the opening of a second EU chapter of negotiations with Turkey, EUexpands reported.

The chapter industrial policies and enterprises could be opened Thursday 29 March in Brussels after a benchmarking.

EUexpands points out, however, that Ankara still cannot start talks on eight chapters in relation with its refusal to normalize relations with Nicosia.

At the end of last year EU foreign ministers agreed upon suspending the negotiations for Turkey's EU membership on eight of the 35 negotiating chapters on Monday.

These are free movement of goods, right of establishment and freedom to provide services, financial services, agriculture and rural development, fisheries, transport policy, customs union and external relations.

The recommendation came after Turkey failed to meet a treaty obligation to open its ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus, one of the 10 new members, which joined the EU in 2004.

EUexpands says it is ironic that the EU German Presidency has in the mean time pushed the Turkey file and asked the country to prepare its negotiating position paper on two other chapters, economic and monetary union and statistics.

These could be opened by the end of June.

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