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"The June List does not view Turkey’s geographical position or its Muslim religion as obstacles to its membership of the EU. We welcome the fact that Turkey is drawing closer to the EU. We must not, however, close our eyes to the fact that both Turkey and the EU must change before full EU membership is possible.
Turkey must acknowledge the Armenian genocide. It must give its minorities full human rights. It must achieve a level of economic development such that its membership does not release tensions that may threaten the internal market. The EU must also change. The common agricultural policy must be abolished, and structural policy must be revised before Turkey, large and poor as it is, can be absorbed.
To ensure grass-roots support, membership negotiations should, moreover, only be embarked upon once the issue has been debated in the Member States’ election campaigns up until 2008. Finally, the issue of the EU’s Constitution must be solved before the EU adopts a position on the issue of negotiations concerning Turkish membership."@en1
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