Brussels, 09/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - France wants accession negotiations with Turkey so begin at the end of 2005 or beginning of 2006, declared the French minister of foreign affairs, Michel Barnier on Thursday in Brussels. The French position is far from the commitment made at the European Council of Copenhagen in December 2002 which called for negotiations "without delay" once the EU considered that Turkey had respected the Copenhagen criteria (also see p 4). Barnier insisted that France...