06/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with Frankfurter Allegemeine Sonntagszeitung, Angela Merkel, CDU candidate to the German chancellorship, said that in the current crisis, the opening of accession negotiations with Turkey, " which has borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria", would not be acceptable to many citizens, and she referred to the idea of a "privileged partnership" . The Austrian Chancellor, Wolfgang Schüssel, said that it would not be democratic to call a break in negotiations with Romania, Bulgaria and the Balkan States. Meeting in Cologne, the Paneuropa-Union Deutschland, chaired by MEP Bernd Posselt (CSU), called for every wave of enlargement to be accompanied by a phase of intensification.