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Turkey became an official candidate country in 2005, but progress in negotiations has been slow. Following last year's report, the EU decided to suspend membership talks in eight out of 35 negotiating areas, due to Turkey's refusal to open up its ports and airports to ships and planes from EU member Cyprus.
Since last December, four negotiating chapters have been opened on enterprise and industrial policy, statistics, financial control and energy. But under President Nicolas Sarkozy, an outspoken critic of Turkish accession, France managed to block the opening of the chapter on economic and monetary union.
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