"Turkey awaits new German government’s stance on its EU hopes
In the hours after Angela Merkel celebrated victory in Germany’s elections, there was gloom among Turkish commentators who saw her likely new coalition as bad news for Ankara’s European Union membership hopes.
The outgoing coalition in Berlin, which was made of Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union and the country’s socialists, had in the latter a group that was more open to Turkish EU accession – even though, as an example of Berlin’s policy, Merkel found common cause with French president Nicolas Sarkozy in stating firmly during the 2009 European Parliament elections that they were against full membership for Turkey."
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