As when the European Association distributed its yearly reports on up-and-comer nations' advancement towards EU standards on Wednesday, everyone's eyes will be on Ukraine and Moldova.
Turkey, a proper possibility for participation beginning around 1999, will scarcely be examined - - yet it wasn't generally the situation.
After EU pioneers endorsed the beginning of promotion chats with Turkey in 2004, the then English chief Tony Blair hailed it as a memorable occasion that displayed there was no conflict of civilisations.
Yet, European pioneers at the time wound up caught in a tussle with Ankara over the partitioned island of Cyprus, an emergency that ended up being just a preview of the fierce relationship.
Today, ties are more conditional than a way towards organization, regardless of whether neither one of the sides will straightforwardly concede this. Specialists by the by still highlight restricted regions in which the relationship can get to the next level.
For some EU part expresses, the long-slowed down promotion talks are dead altogether yet name. In September, Austria - - long went against to Turkey's enrollment - - even required the cycle to end.
EU authorities secretly say this would be more legitimate, however nobody needs to take the main action.
After Turkey's decisions in May, EU pioneers resuscitated expects improvement. They requested the EU's leader arm and its international strategy boss to set up a report on the most proficient method to foster the relationship.
The report is expected before December's next culmination get-together of EU pioneers, yet specialists and EU authorities caution against anticipating any genuine improvement in ties.
"I'm not expecting any significant revitalisation of the relationship since there are restricted regions where headway can truly be made," said Senem Aydin-Duzgit, a worldwide relations teacher at Istanbul's Sabanci College.
'Turkey weariness'
There is "Turkish weariness" in Europe, as Austria's remarks show, said the European Parliament's Turkey rapporteur, Nacho Sanchez Love.
"We are fed up with keeping up with the promotion interaction alive when evidently there is no genuinely political will from the opposite side to progress on equitable guidelines," the MEP said.
The EU blames Turkey for breaking faith on vote based system and law and order, especially after the bombed 2016 overthrow and the resulting crackdown on its apparent allies and government rivals.
The relationship's conditional nature developed after the different sides concurred an arrangement in 2016 under which the EU tossed billions of euros at Ankara to stop travelers coming to Europe after the 2015 displaced person emergency.
"Conditional is definitely not a disparaging term," Love said. " Try not to blend the increase interaction, which has its own standards in light of values and standards, with the remainder of the relationship."
The report due in the not so distant future will probably suggest refreshing the traditions association, for which Turkey's exchange serve was in Brussels in October to scrounge up help.
"On the off chance that the traditions association talks could begin with this ongoing government, I don't figure they would lead anyplace," Aydin-Duzgit said, since Ankara would need to make unappealing changes.
Yet, on the off chance that Brussels is sending blended messages about the relationship's future, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is as well.
He cautioned in September that Turkey would be able "head out in different directions from the EU if fundamental", only two months after he said that assuming Sweden believed Ankara's green light should join Nato, the EU ought to "prepare to Turkey's enrollment".
Turkey's envoy to the EU reaffirmed Turkey's obligation to increase, however recognized it would be hard.
"The Turkish government is focused on EU enrollment," said Faruk Kaymakci. " What we expect is equivalent treatment among competitor nations."
Calls for lucidity
Is it time for Brussels to speak the truth about Turkey's increase?
Numerous eyewitnesses, and Turks, look for clearness, while others contend the nail was immovably in the final resting place when then, at that point, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and previous German chancellor Angela Merkel together openly opposed Turkey's participation in 2009.
What's more, in a put off for Turkey, its greatest protector, England, left the EU.
There is, in any case, tension from the US not to end promotion talks, an EU official said, with Washington frantic to keep Turkey out of Russia's arms and nearer toward the West in the midst of Moscow's assault on Ukraine.
Brussels currently faces a greater problem about Ukraine's future participation, and the difficulties and potential open doors its increase would bring.
One that some say blows any opportunity of Turkey's enrollment.
"Ukraine's enrollment would change the EU and it couldn't take on another part like Turkey," the authority told AFP.