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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to thank Ms Oomen-Ruijten for – as the previous speaker said – a very good and balanced report which highlights both the positive events over the last months and years and also the challenges facing both ourselves and Turkey. We all have to understand one fundamental political fact, which is that we are involved in accession negotiations with Turkey as the European Union, which is to say that, in a sense, Germany, Austria, France, Greece and Cyprus are all involved in these negotiations. If we are involved in negotiations then we should bear in mind that, if I remember correctly, all accession negotiations to date have resulted finally in the country in question becoming a member of the European Union which, by the way, is what the Turkish authorities have said. We must therefore answer the basic question: do we want Turkey in the European Union?
There is one other issue for our fellow Members from Cyprus to consider. I would like to suggest that we look at certain processes from a historical perspective. Poland and Germany fought wars for centuries but today there are no better partners in the European Union than Poland and Germany."@en1
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