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With a decision on <\/SPAN> Jos? Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, said in Parliament during a debate: “It is now time for the European Council to honor its commitment to <\/SPAN> Meanwhile, Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch prime minister, said in the Dutch Parliament that he expected a “yes” Friday but that the negotiations would take years before <\/SPAN> The issue of Turkish accession will dominate the summit talks. Leaders arrive Thursday and will devote discussions over dinner to the issue of Turkish membership, with a decision possible late Thursday or on Friday. Their embrace of <\/SPAN> The EU budget: The EU is in the middle of heated negotiations about its 2007-2013 budget. Rich countries are seeking to limit spending to 1 percent of Union GDP, but other countries – mainly in the poor, former Communist East – and the European Commission want to expand it. The United Nations: European leaders will meet with the UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, in what is seen as tacit support for Annan, who is facing tough criticisms in the <\/SPAN> The fight against terrorism: EU foreign ministers met in <\/SPAN> Whether the EU should guarantee that the talks can end in full membership. Some Europeans want the aim of the talks to be a second-class status for <\/SPAN> When the talks can end. The EU is likely to insist that talks last 10 to 15 years or longer, to allow <\/SPAN> Dutch sources said Wednesday that <\/SPAN> This has come over fears about immigration and the threat posed by <\/SPAN> The <\/SPAN> But the calls for curbs on population movements reflect a broader toughening of European identity – a general unease about embracing a large Muslim nation into the EU fold. These fears have grown strong in countries such as <\/SPAN> French opinion polls show that a majority of voters oppose Turkish membership. In <\/SPAN> “We need long transition periods, and must be able to decide for ourselves when there can be free movement of people,” said Zalm, referring to strict controls imposed by the Dutch government to allay fears about immigration. <\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n “There is a good prospect of a solution on Friday but no guarantee to the outcome in the end and also a temporary stop if negotiations are going in the wrong way,” Zalm said in an interview ahead of a summit meeting of EU leaders here Thursday and Friday. With a decision on Turkey only …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-assyrian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“There is a good prospect of a solution on Friday but no guarantee to the outcome in the end and also a temporary stop if negotiations are going in the wrong way,” Zalm said in an interview ahead of a summit meeting of EU leaders here Thursday and Friday.
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Under current EU rules, rich countries are obliged to subsidize poorer regions, but these countries do not want the huge burden that <\/SPAN>
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Zalm is insisting that powers be devolved to individual countries so that each capital is free to decide when to lift immigration restrictions on <\/SPAN>
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