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"I am against any further enlargement until the Union has achieved deeper political integration and created a powerful Europe and a social Europe. With each enlargement the prospect of a federal Europe fades. Turkey’s entry will further dilute the European project, and it is not desirable for it to be integrated into the EU in its present form. The issue that will arise for everyone has nothing to do with either religion or geography: the European Union has to be a political project.
This project is now under threat because it is being limited to a free-trade area with less and less regulation. We need to overhaul the architecture of Europe and have a federal core, then a Union of 27 countries and then a zone of enhanced cooperation with neighbouring countries such as Turkey, and also other countries like the Maghreb countries, with which we enjoy close links. Approving the opening of negotiations makes this a more distant prospect and continues a policy of ongoing enlargement. Legitimate requirements are made of Turkey, but it goes without saying that if this country meets them it will be impossible to refuse it entry. Before any possible accession negotiations we need to define the future shape of Europe. We should reject enlargement and begin a different kind of cooperation with Turkey."@en1
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