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Czech foreign minister says EU must keep promise to Turkey
The newspaper noted that the furor this summer over France’s expulsions of Roma to Romania and Bulgaria -- European Union countries whose citizens still have limited rights to free travel in the 27-nation bloc -- would pale by comparison to the prospect of full EU membership for Turkey. The daily said Schwarzenberg, who was conscious of being “only” the foreign minister of a Central European nation of about 10 million people, had quite firm ideas about how Europe should react to Turkey and what it must get done first.
“If Turkey, whose membership is tied up in complex negotiations and is unlikely before 2020, meets all conditions,” Schwarzenberg said, “it should join.” According to the Czech foreign minister, whose country held the EU’s rotating presidency in the first half of 2009, if Turkey decides to pursue a more nationalist line but still seeks strong ties, “then let’s find another modus vivendi,” as well as working on “our own prejudices against the Turks.”
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