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"Mr President, with the date scheduled for the opening of the negotiations only a few days and hours away, Turkey has still not recognised the Republic of Cyprus, and the Turkish justice system has banned, once again, a conference from being held on the Armenian genocide, a genocide that Turkey has still not recognised. In spite of these serious violations of the duty to remember and of the principles of democracy, Europe’s institutions are acting as though there were nothing wrong and are confirming that the die is cast: on 3 October 2005, the European Union will begin accession negotiations with Ankara.
I would like, in a word, to respond to all those who explain to us that starting these negotiations in no way makes their results a foregone conclusion. That is untrue, and for at least two reasons. The first is that these negotiations are opening explicitly with the subject of accession in mind, and not with a privileged partnership in mind. To say otherwise would be to lie. The second reason is that, obviously, the opening of the negotiations will lead to the subject of accession. Over several years, we will open, examine and then close again, one after another, the various chapters relating to accession. Yet we already know how the situation will end: no country, at the close of a long process, will take the responsibility solely upon itself of saying ‘no’. To say otherwise would again be to lie.
Today, Europe is undergoing the most serious crisis in its history, and there is no project or prospect on the table, either from the Council or from the Commission, apart from the prospect, if the recent declarations are anything to go by, of turning our back on political Europe. The only item on the agenda is the enlargement to include Turkey, just as though, in this bewildered Europe, perpetual forging ahead were from now on taking the place of vision. In the future, Europe will require a real overhaul. We will support all those who wish radically to reform the European project in order finally to give substance to a political and democratic Europe."@en1
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