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Turkey should prioritize expanding freedom of speech to achieve improvement in its bid to join the European Union, according to Neelie Kroes, the vice president of the EU Commission.

BELGRADE - Irregularities in the public procurement procedure over the course of the previous year were mostly related to its non-transparency, incomplete tender documents and preferential treatment of certain bidders, Sasa Varinac, chairman of the national commission for the protection of bidders' rights, said on Monday.