The European Parliament's largest political group, the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) has called for talks to start with Turkey, but with several conditions.
A statement issued by the centre-right party on Thursday afternoon, agreed unanimously by nine EPP leaders and the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Durao Barroso, stated that Turkey "fulfils the political criteria sufficiently to justify the opening of accession negotiations".
However, the stateme...
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