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"Mr President, with the decision to welcome ten new members to the Union, the Copenhagen European Council has embarked upon a new era, that of Europe reunited. With the pre-programmed decision to welcome Turkey, however, it has also decided to put an end to this era and perhaps to the Union itself. At Copenhagen, a trap was laid which, as well as doubling financial aid to Turkey with immediate effect, could lead to accession negotiations with Turkey starting from the beginning of 2005. In order to justify this, we are hypocritically hiding behind a promise dating back to 1963 which does not actually exist, as, what was envisaged in 1963 was not for Turkey to join the Europe of the Single Act, to the Europe of Maastricht, to the Europe of Amsterdam, to the Europe of Nice. These Europes did not exist back then. What was actually envisaged was nothing more than for Turkey to participate in the Europe of the single market. The peoples of Europe who do not want Turkey to join were deceived by the Copenhagen Council. The meeting of December 2004 was arranged with the usual cynicism in order to side-step the 2004 elections. This will probably not prevent the citizens from launching the debate themselves on this occasion."@en1

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