Güncelleme Tarihi:
Negotiations which are expected to start between Turkey and the EU officially on October 3rd, 2005 will be pursued on 4 groups.
First negotiation group is listed as science and research, education and vocational education, small and medium scale enterprises, culture and visual-auditory politics, telecommunication, industry policy and common foreign and security policy.
Second group is on companies law, statistics, protection of consumers and their health, fishery, competition policy, free movement of property, customs union and foreign relations.
Third group is on social policy, economic and monetary unity, free movement of capital, energy, transportation, taxation, free movement of services and environment.
Last group is on agriculture, regional politics, free movement of people, justice and interior affairs, financial control, financial and budgetary sentences and institutions.
Which of these topics will have priority for Turkey is not clear yet.In recent enlargement of the EU; Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greek Cypriot administration, Malta, Slovakian Republic and Slovenia have become full members.