FRANCE TO BLOCK FURTHER TALKS BETWEEN TURKEY AND EU
PanARMENIAN.Net
14.06.2007 13:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The scheduled negotiations over Turkey’s accession
to the European Union may fail on two of three articles. Besides
Cyprus, Paris has also suddenly stated about his intention to
block negotiations. France is going to block further talks on the
issue of Turkey’s accession to the EU, Financial Times Deutschland
reports. Citing representatives of French diplomatic circles, the
newspaper reports that President of the country Nicolas Sarkozy may
try to veto negotiations over "Economic and Currency Union" article.
Paris explains his refusal with arguments that this very direction
of talks applies only to those countries, the future full membership
of which does not raise doubts from the very beginning. For, example
the same thing happened with Eastern European countries, which joined
the EU recently, Deutsche Welle reports. It is worth mentioning that
France has always opposed Turkey’s accession to the European Union.