On Sunday, 29 November 2015, the European Council will meet a Turkish delegation led by prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Martin Schultz of the European Parliament and Frans Timmermans of the Commission will also attend. The meeting is expected (albeit still with some uncertainty) to announce an agreement between the European Union and Turkey, whereby:

• The accession process will take up new life, within the open chapter on EMU and new chapters on Energy, Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, Justice Freedom and Security, Education and Culture, and Foreign, Security and Defense;
  

• Structured high-level dialogue, including summits, will be scheduled twice a year;
  

• Visa liberalization will occur, in steps, with full liberalization by October 2016;
  

• Substantial budgetary assistance will be provided to Turkey for humanitarian
  assistance in the management of refugees, in the order of €3 bn.;
  

• The member states will continue to take in refugees under the relocation and
  resettlement programmes.

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