Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-26-Speech-2-238"
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"I would like to thank Mr Eurlings for his report. We in the Swedish Social Democratic group are in favour of Turkish membership once the criteria we have had for everyone else have been met. We should not set higher requirements for Turkey or subject it to special treatment, as has been suggested in this debate today. Right now, it is the EU that is the guarantor of progress in Turkey, not only through the encouragement we provide, but also through our demands in relation to issues such as human rights. A former MEP, now a Social Democrat member of the Swedish Parliament, has written to the Turkish ambassador in connection with the fact that 1 200 children’s books by Swedish children’s authors, used by Swedish schools and funded by the Swedish International Development Agency, Sida, and the Olof Palme Center, were stopped by Turkish customs. I find this unfathomable and I have therefore put a question to the Council in this regard. I support democratisation in Turkey and problems such as this one need to be solved. I share the critical views on the report expressed by the other speakers from the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. Let us encourage progress and solve the problems but stand firm on the fact that we in the EU wish to see Turkey as a member when the time is right and the democratic deficit has been rectified."@en1
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