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Thursday, 28 June 2007
EU risks Islamic backlash if it shuns Turkey – Rehn
Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for enlargement, has warned against creating another “nationalist or Islamist problem” on Europe’s doorstep if Turkey is blocked from joining the EU. He said that while taking into account the opposition of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Turkey’s membership of the EU, “the Commission’s view is that we have to keep our word and respect our existing commitments”.
“If you look at the current political situation in the Middle East, in Palestine, in Lebanon, not to speak of Iraq, we don’t need another nationalist or Islamist problem in the neighbourhood of Europe,” he said, in an interview with European Voice. Read more...
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