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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9041

5 October 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/turkey
Traditional division between MEPs confirmed

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...

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