The leader of Germany's centre-right opposition party, Angela Merkel, has written to other centre-right leaders in the EU in a bid to block Turkey's full membership of the EU, offering instead a "privileged partnership".
Ms Merkel's letter was addressed to, amongst others, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende and Commission President-elect José Manuel Durão Barroso.
Copies were also sent t...
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