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Hotel Matignon in Paris: Turkish EU membership has long been unpopular in France (Photo: © European Community, 2008)

French centre-right MPs want to cut EU funds to Turkey

Centre-right French MPs on Thursday (14 September) tabled an amendment in the National Assembly demanding that France next year not pay money due to Turkey to help it on the path to EU membership

French daily Le Monde reports that around 50 deputies from president Nicolas Sarkozy's own Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party are opposed to including so-called pre-accession funds in the national finance bill for 2011. The UMP has 317 of the 577-seat lower house.

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Hotel Matignon in Paris: Turkish EU membership has long been unpopular in France (Photo: © European Community, 2008)

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