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My position on this matter has been well known for a long time. Everyone knows why I am strongly opposed to Turkey’s accession to the EU. It is, consequently, obvious that I would be unable to endorse the conclusions of this new report, which appears to suggest that Turkey’s accession is a foregone conclusion.
I would also be most surprised if a great nation such as Turkey were to accept such contemptuous treatment at the hands of such European institutions as the Commission and Parliament. What gives these bodies, whose legitimacy is more than dubious, the right to treat a sovereign state such as Turkey in this humiliating fashion?
Under the pretext of monitoring compliance with the Copenhagen criteria, Parliament calls on the Turkish authorities to adopt a new constitution, to spread federalist propaganda in this famously civil society, and then unscrupulously subjects Turkey to international condemnation for these never-ending breaches of human rights, and so forth.
Quite apart from the problem of Turkey’s accession, the EU is showing an extremely worrying tendency to interfere."@en1
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