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I voted against this report.
Our fellow citizens are concerned about these future enlargements, and above all about the continuing lack of responses to the crucial question of where Europe’s borders lie.
Turkey does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus, a Member State of the European Union which it has occupied for 30 years, and it punishes anyone who refers to the Armenian genocide. Ninety-seven per cent of Turkey’s territory is outside Europe, and Turkey therefore has no right to join the European Union. Turkey’s integration into the EU would be tantamount to rejecting a political Europe straightaway, before it has even come into being, and to perpetuating the image of a Europe subject to blackmail and pressure. Would this be a sensible course of action?
Those in favour of Turkey’s accession hide behind the Copenhagen criteria under the pretext that Turkey could one day adhere to them, yet this is a trick. It is not enough to insist only on adherence to these criteria as an indispensable condition to be met before any new accession, because this would mean that any country in the world which adhered to them could, in its turn, join the European Union.
This is why I hope that the Council will agree to the idea of a privileged partnership put forward by France."@en1
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