"Britain Fends Off Challenges to Turkey's EU Bid
By Paul Taylor
Reuters
Jul 18, 2005
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn (Thierry Monasse/AFP/Getty Images)
BRUSSELS - EU president Britain fended off Austrian and Cypriot attempts on Monday to raise new hurdles to Turkey's bid to open European Union membership talks, while a survey showed a majority of Europeans opposed Ankara's entry.
The Eurobarometer survey, published by the EU's executive European Commission, showed 52 percent of people in the 25-nation bloc opposed Turkish membership and that only 35 percent were in favour."
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