"Italian president: Turkey's EU membership is a strategic interest
Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano on Tuesday hailed Turkey's bid to join the European Union, which he said Italy believes would contribute to expand 'the common space of democracy.'
The bid also 'represents a stimulus for Ankara to consolidate reforms that have already started and to enact measures necessary to comply completely with the EU's regulations,' Napolitano said following his meeting with Turkey's president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, in the Italian capital, Rome.
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