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    EU summit to reconsider expansion

    The heads of the 25 European Union states are expected to make it harder for new members to join, when they meet for their annual summit in Brussels.

    This, they will argue, will allow time to reform the EU's key institutions.

    Arguments are expected over a call by the EU's executive, the Commission, for the veto over justice and home affairs to be dropped, our correspondent says.

    The UK, Germany and the Netherlands are expected to oppose the proposal which is meant to help fight terrorism.

    'Turkey problem'

    EU leaders are expected to call for issues such as judicial reform and fighting corruption to be tackled early on when considering new applications for membership.

    The summit comes after EU foreign ministers decided on Monday to partially suspend accession talks with Turkey.

    The decision stems from Turkey's refusal to open its sea and air ports to EU member Cyprus, under a customs union pact it signed with the bloc last year.

    Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen who will chair the summit, told Reuters news agency that his purpose was to find some kind of consensus about enlargement.

    "Now we can have this general debate about enlargement without this Turkey problem," he said.

    Read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6178337.stm
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    I wholeheartedly agree! We have this turkey problem after every Christmas
    Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.

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