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"Mr President, I will be voting in support of the report as I have for other related decisions of the European Union in recent times. I understand it to be, first and foremost, a message to Turkey that we are happy with the recent democratic reforms there. At the same time it is, of course, abundantly clear that these reforms do not go far enough and that with regard to the continuation of the process of accepting Turkey into the European Union they should be more meticulous. Like all the other candidate countries, Turkey is required to fulfil all the conditions. This is the basic point of my short speech.
I would like to stress that the European Union itself must fulfil the conditions for further enlargement, particularly in the case of a sensitive country like Turkey. It is bound by the Copenhagen criteria, and I quote, must be ‘capable of accepting new members’. In other words it should fulfil its political, economic and social goals.
In order to become more united and more effective, it must first consolidate itself and strengthen itself from within and I consider the ratification of the European Constitutional Agreement to be a vital precondition, if any further enlargement of the European Union is to be contemplated."@en1
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