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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9220

28 June 2006
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
EU-Turkey: plea for a reciprocal and consensual statement that accession is not the right way forward for future relations

Recent developments in the sensitive issue of Turkey's accession to the EU bring out the real problems, beyond the statements of principle for or against, which too often form the main part of the stances taken. Recently Jean-Claude Juncker said that it could in fact be Turkey itself which gives up on full accession, because of all that this would involve. This opinion from one of the key players in recent and current European history is of comfort to me, because I feel that, from the...

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