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BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkey's EU membership bid stalls

"Turkey's EU membership bid stalls
By Mark Mardell
BBC Europe Editor, Brussels

'The train is still on the tracks,' declared UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett at the end of a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels.

For months, commentators have been warning of a 'train crash' if talks about Turkey joining the EU were completely derailed."

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