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Deutsche-Welle -Aina The head of the Christian Social Union (CSU), Edmund Stoiber and new Chairman of the ruling French Conservatives, Nicolas Sarkozy have made a mutual display of their opposition to Turkey joining the European Union
Joining Stoiber at a CSU meeting in the Alpine location of Wildbad Kreuth, the French politician made no bones about his support for the German conservatives’ controversial opposition to Turkey being granted accession to the European Union.
Speaking after the meeting, Stoiber said that neither he nor his French colleague would entertain the idea of forging a political union with countries of what he termed “a different structure.”
He said the European Union could not support membership from countries such as Turkey, Ukraine or Belarus, and added that the only way to work with such unlikely candidates would be to create privileged partnerships.
Stoiber and his CSU are opposed to having Turkey join the European party on the grounds that the new constitution would give Turkey, as a densely-populated country, too much say in the overall scheme of things.
Expanding informal understanding
Stoiber said that his party would be willing to give the green light to the European constitution only if it granted the German parliament, the Bundestag a more influential voice on the European stage. But in the absence of such a clause, some 18 CSU members of parliament have threatened to vote against ratifying the constitution treaty.
The two men made a joint stand for an expansion of the existing Franco-German axis. Stoiber said it was time for some of the larger countries, such as Britain, Italy, Spain and Poland, to reach informal agreement among themselves. But Sarkozy (photo, above) said any such expansion should not be of an exclusive nature.
7-1-2005
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