The spectrum of the ‘Polish plumber’, which haunted the French referendum campaign on the European Constitution in 2005, is a hoax of political history, as the predicted flood of Eastern workers in France never happened.
Article published on EurActiv.fr 19 october 2009

The European Commission acknowledged that Turkey has made efforts to comply with membership criteria. However it still needs to solve the issue with Cyprus and go further in protecting Human Rights. Progress is also required in other candidate countries.
Article published on EurActiv.fr 15 October 2009

After a sharp drop in the emigration trend from Bulgaria during the period 2002-2006, a new tendency to leave the country has emerged among professionally unqualified young people between 20-29 years of age, reports Dnevnik, EurActiv’s partner in Bulgaria.
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In a major foreign policy speech pronounced on 26 October, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband called for Turkey’s full membership of the EU, provided that the candidate country satisfies human rights standards and addresses the role of the military and the separation of powers.
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Journalists, investigators and politicians have analyzed a European poll regarding enlargement after the Iron curtain collapsed.
Article published on EurActiv.fr 14 October 2009

France is very willing to develop closer economic relations with Ankara. The official position on Turkey’s potential European membership does not match these declarations.
Article published on EurActiv.fr 12 October 2009

While Europe is celebrating the end of the Iron curtain, the former Czech President Vaclav Havel assumed that Western countries should learn from their Eastern neighbors’ experience in fighting totalitarian regimes.
Article published on EurActiv.fr 26 october 2009

V4 foreign ministers take visa free travel of the Western Balkan citizens as a strategic goal. The heads of diplomacy met in Budapest yesterday (october 6.) to discuss the euro-atlantic integration of this region. Foreign ministers pledged to harmonise their development aids.
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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who helped secure peace in Bosnia with the 1995 Dayton agreement, is holding talks with Bosnian politicians on 8-9 October to seek a solution to deepening ethnic divisions and the threat of new conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Turkey and Armenia signed a landmark peace accord on Saturday (10 October) to restore ties and open their shared border after a century of hostility stemming from the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces in the First World War. But the next day a speech by Turkey’s prime minister made the agreement seem problematic.
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