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"I abstained from the final vote on the Eurlings report.
It would, firstly, be reasonable not to consider any further enlargement before first deciding where Europe’s borders lie. Pushing back their limits indefinitely risks turning Europe into nothing more than a vast free-trade area. Such a renouncement is anathema to convinced federalists.
Secondly, experience shows that once negotiations have been opened, accession inevitably follows once the candidate country meets the conditions laid down, and in particular the Copenhagen criteria. But although we might legitimately hope that Turkey will continue to build on the progress it has made, particularly on democracy and human rights, there is as yet no guarantee that Europe is prepared to provide the resources, not least the budgetary resources, to go ahead with such an enlargement in a mutually satisfactory way.
My abstention is then a warning to the European Summit of 17 December: no more enlargement without deeper integration! We have to stop presenting the peoples of Europe with
and instructing them to ratify decisions taken in their absence several years earlier by the Heads of State or Government."@en1
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