"Austrian minister warns on Turkish membership
By Ralph Atkins and Mark Schieritz in Vienna and Daniel Dombey in Brussels
Published: July 17 2005 22:00 | Last updated: July 17 2005 22:00
GrasserTurkey's hopes that negotiations leading to full European Union membership might start later this year have been dealt a severe blow by Austria's finance minister.
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Karl-Heinz Grasser, who is also deputy president of the eurogroup, comprising finance ministers of eurozone countries, said he would try to ensure that full membership did not become a realistic proposition for Turkey. “Countries such as Croatia and other Balkan states have more of a right to be included soon in the EU than Turkey,” he said in a Financial Times interview."
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