"'Wrong' to admit Turkey to EU: Oskar Lafontaine
11 August 2005
BERLIN - An influential leader of Germany's newly founded Left Party, Oskar Lafontaine, said Thursday that he opposed allowing Turkey to join the European Union.
'I personally was against the swift eastward expansion of the European Union (E.U.) and thus regard it as wrong for Turkey to be taken into the E.U.,' said Lafontaine in a Maerkisiche Allgemeine newspaper interview.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who is a Social Democrat (SPD), and his Greens coalition allies back Turkish E.U. membership."
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