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EU not Ready to Accept Turkey as Full Member
11.01.2007 15:24 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Joseph Daul, whose group has 277 seats in the
732-seat EU assembly, said he is against Turkey’s membership, further
undermining Ankara’s bid to join the 27-nation bloc. Joseph Daul, a
French farmer-turned-politician, was narrowly elected chairman of the
conservative European People’s Party on Tuesday, replacing German
lawmaker Hans-Gert Poettering, who becomes president of the European
Parliament next week.

Joseph Daul said Turkey is not ready to join the EU, and the European
Union itself is not ready to accept Turkey. "I’m in favor of a
privileged partnership on a very high level. If this, in the future,
leads to full membership, why not, but at present I’m against Turkey
in the European Union," Daul told reporters.