Balancing the desire for scientific and technological pace with the ethical aspects that European?s are strongly attached to will be a tough challenge for EU decision-makers.
After forty-six years since it?s first application to join, Turkey will begin EU accession negotiations on 3 October 2005, but accession should not be understood as a fait accompli.
Over the coming weeks the European Parliament will decide on the Services Directive. It is planned that the Committee for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection will adopt a corresponding report on 13 September 2005, with the plenary session then voting on this in October.
Accession negotiations with Croatia were put on hold in March 2005 pending Croatia?s increased co-operation with the ICTY but could this decision be doing more harm than good?
The UK took over the six-month rotating European Presidency from Luxembourg at the beginning of July amid turmoil both at the national and European level.
Luxembourg?s Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker declared that Europe was in a ?deep crisis? at the end of the June European Council Summit in Brussels.
