The 27 EU member states and Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan officially opened the chapters, on "company law" and "intellectual property law", in Luxembourg, bringing to eight the number of policy areas Turkey has opened since it began its accession talks in 2005.
This time the decision was taken by the 27 EU nations with little fuss and no fresh blocking move from France which, along with Austria and Cyprus, has opposed membership for mainly Muslim but secular Turkey.
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