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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8850

17 December 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 10 / 41
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/turkey/national front

16/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - During a press conference in Strasbourg on Tuesday evening, Front national MEP Jean-Marie Le Pen criticised the governments of the Union, which had, he said, given in to the pressures of George Bush by agreeing to the idea of opening accession negotiations with Turkey. Le Pen said that the assertion that accession would only be a reality based on the "Greek calendar" was just subterfuge. He also attacked the "hypocritical" policy of Jacques Chirac on Greece, "the...

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