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"Mr President, it is essential for the sake of our stability as well as morality that we keep faith with Turkey. If we agree to start accession negotiations we should see them through. I believe that the so-called privileged partnership is a false prospectus designed to drive Turkey away from integration with Europe. Turkey has enjoyed a privileged partnership through the Customs Union and also NATO for several years. This has brought us to the point of pre-accession. Whatever the outcome of the accession negotiations, it is only through the process of the accession negotiations that the European-Turkey relationship will develop.
Mr Toubon and his friends propose that Turkey be brought into a privileged partnership enjoying some aspects of membership, but without political representation and without the duty to respect European law and the principle of loyal cooperation. This is madness: it is bad for Turkey, subversive of the European Union and it displays a vast and astonishing absence of self-confidence inside this Parliament for European projects.
Finally, I would like to ask the Commission and the presidency to flesh out the proposal for a mechanism to suspend the negotiations should there be a crisis. I trust that the European Council will follow the spirit of the Constitution, which requires a third of Member States to trigger such a mechanism and not simply a single truculent member."@en1
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