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Blockage of EU environment chapter angers Turkey - Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review

"Blockage of EU environment chapter angers Turkey

SERKAN DEMİRTAŞ
MADRID – Hürriyet Daily News
Plans to open more negotiation chapters in the EU accession negotiations are being thwarted for political reasons and Turkish leaders are fuming. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, speaking to the Daily News in Spain, says it’s not understandable. ‘We are criticized by the Europeans for not being fast enough, but is it because of us or them?’"

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