Brussels, 04/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - The comments made by MEPs on opening accession talks with Turkey confirm the traditional and internal divisions of certain groups. The EPP-ED Group remains the most compact in its rejection of Turkish membership, while the Greens/EFA are the most in favour.
“I want to say how ashamed I was last night” at seeing that it took the Council thirty hours to “add a sentence” in the negotiating brief, said Joost Lagendijk of the Netherlands, Chair of...