"France names five problem areas of Turkey’s EU bid Published: Friday, 31 August, 2007, 01:15 AM Doha Time PARIS: France spelled out yesterday five areas of Turkey’s accession talks with the European Union that it wants to hold up because they assume the large, poor, mainly Muslim nation will eventually join the 27-nation bloc. They include agricultural subsidies and regional aid – the EU’s two biggest spending programmes – as well as the euro and Turkey’s place in institutions such as the European Parliament, and European citizenship rights for Turks. In a speech on Monday setting out his foreign policy goals, President Nicolas Sarkozy said that France would allow talks with Ankara to continue as long as one possible outcome was the offer of a close association with the EU rather than membership."
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