SARKOZY: IF I AM ELECTED AS PRESIDENT, TURKEY WILL NOT ENTER EU DURING MY OFFICE
PanARMENIAN.Net
03.05.2007 13:12 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ French presidential candidates Nicola Sarkozy and
Segolen Royal have opposite views on EU’s further enlargement and
Turkey’s membership to the Union. "Further enlargement of the European
Union is impossible without preliminary reforms in its institutions. An
endless enlargement means death of political Europe. If I am elected
as president of France Turkey will not enter EU during my office.
Turkey is located on Asia Minor and it says everything," Sarkozy
stated during live debates on May 2 with Segolen Royal.
Today Royal occupied a more compromise stance. On her opinion it is
necessary to sustain a pause towards Turkey, but this country should
not be rejected for EU membership completely.
"If Turkey fulfills all necessary commitments it may become a
member-state of the European Union in future," socialist Royal
said, adding that she agrees with the idea that any new offer on
EU’s further enlargement must be put for referendum in France, RIA
"Novosti" reports.