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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10124

23 April 2010
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Thorough reflection required with regard to Turkish accession

Three repercussions. The arguments which, in my opinion, are against Turkey's accession to the EU have been made on several occasions in this column. Why repeat these arguments again and risk being rather repetitive? Because, certain recent developments have again reinforced these arguments (see this column yesterday). Turkish accession would have three fundamental repercussions on Europe:

1) Abandonment of geographical identity. The adjective “European” has assumed a number of...

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