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Our Europe is an open Europe, founded on the European public culture derived from our common values and standards. This ‘unity in diversity’ is both Europe’s most important characteristic and its greatest asset.
The implication of such a political project is that there are limits. The Union’s further enlargement should not stand in the way of its becoming even deeper. After all, Turkish membership threatens to turn the Union into a merely economic cooperative which will no longer be able to carry out important supranational responsibilities in a coordinated manner.
A Union devoid of any strength and spirit, paralysed by internal contradictions; that is not the outcome for which many had worked and about which they had dreamed. There is no doubt that Turkey has made an important journey over the past few years. These reforms and in-depth economic cooperation must definitely be continued.
In this respect, a special partnership between the Union and Turkey seems to be the appropriate route, in which, alongside far-reaching economic cooperation, conditions can also be agreed in the areas of the Kurds, women’s rights and human rights in general. Since this latter element is not provided for in the report, I shall be voting against the report and the resolution."@en1
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