The Council of Ministers decided to apply “The EU Strategy on Turkey’s Accession Process” on the basis of four pillars.

German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Guido Westerwelle, visited Turkey. (6-8 January)

An aim to accelerate Turkey’s EU membership negotiations has been mentioned in the press conference held in Madrid under the EU Presidency of Spain.

The European Central Bank and the European Commission approved the programme concerning the supervision of candidate and potential candidate countries.

The EP discussed Turkey’s democratization problem in the formal General Committee meeting held in Strasbourg.

Turkey’s Progress Report was accepted by the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission’s 63^rd meeting was held in Brussels ( 22-23 February)

The European Commission approved an aid amounting to 5,7 million euros for the European Union’s Eastern and South-eastern neighbours.

The Swedish Parliament adopted a draft recognizing 1915 events as a ‘genocide’.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Davutoğlu, attended EU’s Foreign Ministers meeting in Lapland.

The Venetian Commission announced its report concerning the entity problem of non-Muslim minorities living in Turkey.

The Commissioner responsible for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, Štefan Füle, made his first official visit to Turkey.

The EP members established an informal support group called ‘Friends of Turkey’.

The European Council adopted the regulation facilitating the free movement of non-European citizens in the Schengen area for a long-term stay.

The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel visited Turkey.

The Former Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder affirmed in his article published in Bild, that the expression of “privileged partnership” should be removed from the Turkey-EU literature.

The Independent Commission of Turkey visited Brussels (18-20 April).

Aygül Özkan has been assigned as the first Turkish Minister of Turkish origin in Germany.

The EP’s Christian Democrats published a declaration concerning the fight against honor killings in Turkey.

The European Court of Justice condemned Netherlands and Germany of applying high residence fees on Turkish citizens living in Europe. 

The 48^th Turkey-EU Association Council was held in Brussels.

Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission’s 64^th meeting was held in Istanbul (25-26 May).

General elections were held in Netherlands and the conservative-liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy won.

Turkey-EU Customs Union Joint Committee held their 24^th meeting in Ankara.

The draft regarding the increase of  the number MEP has been approved at the Intergovernmental Conference.

Christian Wulff has been elected the new President of Germany.

Turkey- EU Political Dialog meeting was held in Istanbul.

The OSCE published a report about the freedom of the press in 56 countries.

France started to expel Romanian immigrants.

Turkey took over the Presidency of UN Security Council for a period of a month.

The European Commission President José Manuel Barroso delivered his first State of Union  in the EP.

A constitutional referendum on a number of changes to the constitution was held in Turkey. These changes have been approved with 58% of the votes.

The 28^th of EU-Turkey Joint Consultative Committee’s meeting was held in Scotland. (13-14 September)

OECD published a 2010 research report on Turkish Economy.

The report entitled “Commercial and Economic Relations with Turkey” prepared by the EP liberal group member Metin Kazak and the draft resolution concerning this report have been adopted by the EP.

The European Commission adopted the draft regulations related to a support program to develop an integrated maritime policy.

The EU’s Transport Ministers reach an agreement on ‘Eurovignette’.

As a response to Greece request, the EU decided to establish emergency response teams from the FRONTEX, on frontier between Turkey and Greece,.

Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission’s 65^th meeting was held in Brussels (26-27 October).

A Defense Cooperation Agreement has been signed between England and France.

The European Council published the Enlargement Strategy and Progress Reports 2010.

Turkey took over the European Council Presidency from Macedonia for six months.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon published the Cyprus Report.

Istanbul has been declared as the European Capital of Sport for 2012.

The EP debated about the Progress Report on Turkey.

The Secretariat General for EU Affairs celebrated its 10^th anniversary.

A Financing agreement for 2009 was signed under the framework of IPA between the European Commission and Turkey .

The EP approved the EU budget.

France and Germany declared that they were against Romania's  and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees published its Report on Turkey for the year 2011.