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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8787

17 September 2004
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Some precautions to avoid the next report on negotiations with Turkey tearing up the Union

In the affair of the possible opening of accession negotiations with Turkey, we should go beyond the simple alternative "yes" or "no". Otherwise, whatever the European Commission's decision first of all, and that of the Summit afterwards, there will be serious fractures between member states and even within some of them, with an additional risk of considerable repercussions for the ratification of the Constitution (see this column of yesterday). Certainly the EU will have to make a choice...

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