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Monday, 25 June 2007
France blocks start of Turkey eurozone talks
Short before the July elections in Turkey, the European Union is to start membership talks with Turkey this week in only two new areas instead of three, because of France's opposition. Despite earlier plans by the German EU presidency to open talks on three EU integration areas with Turkey by the end of June, European diplomats have given the red light to talks with Ankara on the eurozone rules chapter.EUObserver reports that the European Commission earlier presented its reports on three Turkey chapters - statistics, financial control and economic and monetary union - but the euro package was dropped from the agenda of the diplomats' meeting on Monday.
"The French delegation asked for more time to study the EU's position," one EU diplomat said, adding that Paris generally takes more time for detailed evaluation of enlargement reports.
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