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"en.20040311.6.4-137"2
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"Unlike in previous instalments, in particular the last of them in November 2003, Turkey is strangely absent from the string of reports devoted to the enlargement process and examined in this sitting. Is it that the impending elections make it preferable to overshadow the persistence of a very lively debate on the possibility of Turkey’s accession? This issue passionately splits opinion in Germany and is even tearing apart the Commission, if we are to believe the recent position of Commissioner Bolkestein against the entry of Turkey into the EU.
In any case, it is dangerous to state, as the Brok report does, echoing the Commission, that a lack of an agreement on Cyprus is an obstacle to Turkey entering the EU, because that implies conversely that such an agreement would give them an automatic right of entry.
Equally, it is totally premature to propose that Turkish should become an official language of the EU at a time when nobody knows what status would be granted to this language in the event of accession, nor the importance of the population affected, which must be taken into consideration if we want to stop multilingualism leading to unmanageable problems. There is, in any case, suspect haste in this."@en1
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