"Commissioner Rehn: Call for Turkish 'second class' EU membership is strange
'Enlargement of Union is used as scapegoat for member states' internal problems'
Commissioner Rehn: Call for Turkish 'second class' EU membership is strange
The European Commissioner for Enlargement, Finland's Olli Rehn, is astonished by Austria's demands that negotiations with Turkey be limited to talks of 'privileged partnership' rather than full EU membership.
'Certainly I'll be keeping an open mind to what this could mean. But Turkey already has tight relationships with the Union in the form of a comprehensive customs union', Rehn wonders when interviewed in Brussels by the Scandinavian media, the Finnish Helsingin Sanomat, the Danish Politiken, and the Swedish Dagens Nyheter "
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