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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8477

6 June 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/turkey
Parliament puts trust in Turkey to fulfil Copenhagen criteria on condition that reforms are pursued with "consistency and determination"

Strasbourg, 05/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - By adopting by 216 votes for, 75 against, with 38 abstentions, the report by Dutch Christian Democrat, Arie Oostlander, on Turkey's request to join the EU, the EU has finally chosen to address a message of encouragement to the government and Turkish public opinion. The report, in which the positions are sometimes quite hard, was made more flexible on several points and still points our that the political criteria of Copenhagen have not yet been...

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