"Latest crisis threatens EU talks and Turkish ambitions
By Stephen Castle in Luxembourg
14 June 2005
Europe's political crisis threatens to engulf talks on EU spending, moves to ratify the European constitution and Turkey's ambitions to join the bloc.
Germany's Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, said negotiations on an EU budget for 2007-13 were deadlocked and might have to be abandoned by EU leaders when they meet for a summit on Thursday."
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