The European Union on Thursday partially reopened membership negotiations with Turkey, focusing on the enterprise and industrial policy chapter.

Negotiations could also open in the coming weeks on three other policy areas, including economic and monetary affairs, the compilation of statistics and financial control, EU sources said.

Turkey's chief negotiator Ali Babacan said in Brussels that Ankara would present a strategy next month aimed at speeding up reforms needed for EU accession.

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.

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