"Commission keeps Turkish EU hopes alive
Nicholas Watt, European editor
Thursday June 30, 2005
The Guardian
An attempt to end Turkey's 40-year campaign to join the EU was defeated yesterday during a lengthy and heated row among European commissioners in Brussels.
Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European commission, saw off a group who argued that Ankara should merely be given "privileged partnership" rather than full EU membership."
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