TURKEY DID NOT ENTER CONTOUR OF EUROPE ON NEW EURO COINS

ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Sept 26 2007

ArmInfo. Turkey, earlier depicted on the symbolic map of Europe,
has disappeared from the face side of the new coins of 10 Eurocents
and 2 Euro, minted by Slovenia, the Russian Mass Media report.

The geographic borders of EU turned out to be shifted to the east of
the continent, having covered part of Russia. Some members of the
Europarliament perceived a politically motivated decision of EU’s
Council of Ministers in "exclusion" of Turkey. "Such a dictator
country as Belarus is in the picture of the new Euro coins, while
such a democratic country as Turkey, with which negotiations are
held on joining the EU, is absent", the Italian parliamentarians
Marco Kappato and Marco Pannella said. The Eurocommission denies
this opinion. "The idea was to create a new design, more stabilized
and styled than a simple geographic reflection of Europe, which is
difficult to depict on such a small surface", representative of EU
Executive Power Amelia Torres said.