"France puts brakes on EU-Turkey talks
25 June 2007, 09:00 CET
(BRUSSELS) - The European Union presidency on Monday decided not to open membership talks with Turkey on one of three new policy areas, an EU diplomat said, after France demanded the chapter be blocked.
'At the demand of the German presidency and the European Commission, the chapter on economic and monetary policy has been withdrawn from the agenda of the meeting of ambassadors,' the diplomat said, on condition of anonymity."
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