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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is a mystery about the Eurlings report. But it is not the one people say. It is not the harshness or hardening of the report. In fact, when you read this report you find that it repeats what we have, quite rightly, always said. It says that human rights and freedom of expression are not adequately respected in Turkey. It says that religious minorities do not have the right to own property, to publish and to teach that they have everywhere in the European Union. It says that when you join a club the least you can do is to shake hands with all the members and not to behave in a warlike manner towards any of them. Finally, it says that there has been an Armenian genocide and that nothing will be built without acknowledging that genocide, and there is nothing new in that. We said it in 2004, we asked for acknowledgement of the genocide in 2004 and in 2005 we said it had to be a precondition. Failure to adopt paragraph 49 would be a climb-down on Parliament’s part.
The real mystery, however, the real mystery of the Eurlings report is its consistency. Here is an institution that continues, several years later, to say what it said before. In the climate of general degeneration of which Daniel Cohn-Bendit spoke so critically a few moments ago, that is a strange thing. It is strange that here and now we should be saying that what we said yesterday must remain at the centre of our concerns. The mystery of the Eurlings report is that we find, for the first time in the history of negotiations, that we have a State that regresses before accession and not afterwards and that tells us accession must be on its terms and not ours. The mystery of the Eurlings report is that, unlike the Commission in its report on Bulgaria and Romania, this institution has decided to tell the truth, to tell it as it is, to speak the facts, and while I know - Guy Béart said it some time ago – that the first person to tell the truth must be executed, I hope that will not be the case with Mr Eurlings and his report, which I wholeheartedly support.
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