THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey

After meeting with Mr Schröder and Mr Erdogan, Mr Chirace reiterates his willingness to open negotiations with Ankara, but stresses that Turkey may not want to "go all the way with efforts needed to adapt"

Brussels, 27/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - Despite the outright opposition of most French political parties including his own (UMP), President Chirac said in Berlin on Tuesday, after a meeting with the heads of the German and Turkish governments, Gerhard Schröder and Tayyip Erdogan respectively, Turkey's accession to the EU is "in the interests of Turkey and of the European Union (…), and also in that of peace, security and democracy in the world and in our region". At the same time, he told...