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"Mr President, how long are we going to occupy ourselves with the preparation of so-called progress reports on Turkey, reports that speak of no progress whatsoever? This is already the sixth or the seventh since 2005 and I wonder if there is still anyone in Turkey or Europe that is taking these texts seriously. We all know that, even back then, Turkey did not meet the criteria to start the negotiations on accession in the first place, and the situation has gone from bad to worse ever since.
Right now, there are about 100 people in Turkey being held in prison, purely because of the opinions they proclaimed. They include professors, officials, army officers, writers, journalists and elected politicians. Do we want these kinds of countries in the European Union? In addition, Turkey’s stance on Cyprus is outrageous, just as is its foreign policy which is increasingly turning its back on Europe.
Let us therefore finally pull the plug and decide once and for all that Europe should remain European."@en1
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