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EU NOT READY TO ACCEPT TURKEY
Pan Armenian News
03.06.2005 04:57
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chairman of the Christian Social Union, Bavarian
Premier Edmund Stoiberg stated that in case the party wins the
preschedule parliamentary elections this autumn the negotiations on
Turkey's accession to the EU will take a different course and instead
of membership Turkey will be offered a privileged partnership, Yerkir
Online reports with a reference to Die Zeit. According to Stoiberg,
the party does not object Turkey's EU membership but considers that
the country cannot be a full member of the EU. He also noted that
with Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel's coming to
power Germany's policy towards Turkey will differ from that pursued
by Gerhard Schroder. To note, NTV Turkish channel reported that Mr.
Stoiberg said the EU is not ready to accept a country with a great
number of Muslim population however has nothing against Romania
and Bulgaria.
Pan Armenian News
03.06.2005 04:57
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chairman of the Christian Social Union, Bavarian
Premier Edmund Stoiberg stated that in case the party wins the
preschedule parliamentary elections this autumn the negotiations on
Turkey's accession to the EU will take a different course and instead
of membership Turkey will be offered a privileged partnership, Yerkir
Online reports with a reference to Die Zeit. According to Stoiberg,
the party does not object Turkey's EU membership but considers that
the country cannot be a full member of the EU. He also noted that
with Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel's coming to
power Germany's policy towards Turkey will differ from that pursued
by Gerhard Schroder. To note, NTV Turkish channel reported that Mr.
Stoiberg said the EU is not ready to accept a country with a great
number of Muslim population however has nothing against Romania
and Bulgaria.