(DIP) SWEDEN TO TAKE OVER EU'S TERM PRESIDENCY ON WEDNESDAY.ANKARA, Jun 30, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Sweden is getting prepared to take over the rotating presidency of the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community (EU) from Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. as of July 1, 2009. During Sweden's presidency, Turkey hopes to make progress in accession talks with the union. Sweden has also recently expressed its determination to carry on with full membership negotiations with Turkey. Within the framework of its EU negotiation process, Turkey has so far opened chapters on free movement of capital, company law, intellectual property law, information society and media, enterprise and industry policy, trans-European networks The Trans-European Networks (TEN in EU jargon) were created by the European Union by Articles 154-156 of the Maastricht Treaty (1992), with the stated goals of the creation of an internal market and the reinforcement of economic and social cohesion. , consumer and health protection, statistics, financial control, and science and research. During an intergovernmental conference held in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Tuesday, the policy chapter on taxation is also expected to be opened to negotiation under the Czech presidency of the union. The chapter on taxation would be the eleventh of a total of 33 chapters. The Swedish term presidency is expected to speed up Turkey's accession talks by opening three more chapters on social policy and employment, competition law and environment. Turkey became an EU candidate country in December 1999. The union launched accession talks with Turkey on October 3, 2005. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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