Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : Booksllc.Net
ISBN 13 : 9781230778471
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (784 download)
Book Synopsis Contemplated Enlargements of the European Union by : Source Wikipedia
Download or read book Contemplated Enlargements of the European Union written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Accession of Albania to the European Union, Accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union, Accession of Croatia to the European Union, Accession of Iceland to the European Union, Accession of Macedonia to the European Union, Accession of Montenegro to the European Union, Accession of Serbia to the European Union, Accession of Turkey to the European Union. Excerpt: Turkey's application to accede to the European Union was made on 14 April 1987. Turkey has been an associate member of the European Union (EU) and its predecessors since 1963. After the ten founding members, Turkey was one of the first countries to become a member of the Council of Europe in 1949, and was also a founding member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1961 and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 1973. The country has also been an associate member of the Western European Union since 1992, and is a part of the "Western Europe" branch of the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) at the United Nations. Turkey signed a Customs Union agreement with the EU in 1995 and was officially recognised as a candidate for full membership on 12 December 1999, at the Helsinki summit of the European Council. Negotiations were started on 3 October 2005, and the process, should it be in Turkey's favour, is likely to take at least a decade to complete. The membership bid has become a major controversy of the ongoing enlargement of the European Union. Turkey joined the Council of Europe in 1949 and is regarded as a founding member of the organization.After the Ottoman Empire's collapse following World War I, Turkish revolutionaries led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk emerged victorious in the Turkish War of Independence, establishing the modern Turkish Republic as it exists today. Ataturk, ...