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"Mr President, Mr Oostlander has accomplished a huge, difficult task, endeavouring to reconcile the extremely diverse viewpoints expressed by Parliament on a controversial and much-debated subject such as Turkey’s accession. The result is a resolution which is acceptable as a compromise but which we might have liked to be marked and inspired by greater optimism so as to send Turkey a more positive message, as Commissioner Verheugen advocated too, despite the fact that this country still has a great deal to do and many changes and innovations to make before it can hope to join the European Union, as the resolution rightly states.
We need to establish whether geography and religion are criteria which restrict the possibility of accession or whether Europe is conceived as a set of values and principles with the result that countries that share those values and principles of democracy and freedom have the right to apply for membership. It is in this spirit that, to Article 52 of the report, which notes that the conditions for opening negotiations are not yet in place – which is undoubtedly true at present – we prefer the version contained in Amendment No 11, to which Mr Dell’Alba referred just now, which expresses the positive view, the confidence that the requirements can be met if Turkey carries out the necessary reforms. I too am grateful to Mr Oostlander, who appears to be willing to accept this amendment, if not as a replacement for point 52, at least as an addition to it."@en1
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