Friday, August 12, 2005

ekathimerini.com | Patience called for as EU plans change

"Patience called for as EU plans change

By Costas Iordanidis

Greece is getting rather bewildered with France’s resolute stance against Turkey and the demands by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and President Jacques Chirac that Turkey recognize Cyprus before scheduled accession talks with the European Union begin in October.

The detached patience that Costas Karamanlis’s government has been practicing until now will probably not be necessary for much longer as the Turkish question is to be discussed on August 24 by the EU’s committee of permanent representatives and in September by the European Council of foreign ministers."

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