"Speech by EU Commissioner Olli Rehn on Europe’s Role in the World
Olli Rehn EU Commissioner for Enlargement The EU Enlargement Process and Europe’s Role in the World Princeton University Princeton, 24 September 2009
...For example, we have always been clear with Turkey that freedom of thought, speech and the press are fundamental values in any open and democratic society. They are a necessary condition for EU membership. The same goes for religious freedoms, women’s rights, and minority rights.
This should sound familiar to an American audience. For Turkey to join, we simply ask that it lives up to the same values and principles that are set out in the United States “Bill of Rights.”
I know Prime Minister Erdogan spoke here at Princeton yesterday. As he told you, and as I always tell my colleagues, the EU foreign ministers: Europe and Turkey share paramount strategic interests."
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