Strasbourg, 22/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - Martin Schulz, who leads the EP Socialist Group, expects the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to clearly state his ambitions with regard to Turkey. “I am not sure that Mr Sarkozy really wants to block membership talks with Turkey”, Mr Schulz told the press on Tuesday. “That was part of the talk accompanying the electoral campaign and I do not believe the French Republic is really able to block talks with Turkey”, he went on to say, adding that, in any case, the French president has not clearly stated his intentions on the matter. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Greens/EFA, Germany), for his part, pointed out that Nicolas Sarkozy had said he would not hold the presidency for more than two mandates and that the decision of whether or not Turkey would enter Europe would therefore not be up to him, given that it is a matter that will be raised in about fifteen years' time. The representative of the Greens described as “scandalous” the new electoral law adopted last week by the Turkish parliament. The text, he says, is “liberticide” as it will not allow the Kurds to have a sufficient number of representatives at the next Assembly. (bc)