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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8337

9 November 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey/convention
VGE against Turkey's membership of Union - Strong reactions in Convention

Paris, 08/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published in "Le Monde" on 8 November, Valery Giscard d'Estaing states: "Turkey is a country close to Europe, an important country, which has a genuine elite, but it is not a European country … Its capital is not in Europe, it has 95% of its population outside Europe". In the European Convention, "we are reasoning on the basis of a Europe aat 25 plus 2, full stop!", (the ten first candidates plus Bulgaria and Romania), exclaimed VGE. And,...

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