EUROPE: French Deputies request the deletion of pre-accession funds to Turkey

More than 50 French MPs tabled an amendment to Finance Bill to remove pre-accession funds granted to Turkey, estimated at 900 million euros over seven years (2007-2013).

In France all the polls are going in the same direction: yes privileged artnership with Turkey, not Turkish accession.

"The French do not understand that it encourages financially this country make reform with a view to EU membership, not by ostracism, but simply because Turkey is not in Europe, this is an geographic and historic obviously!
", wrote MP Richard Mallié.

The European Commission has already given six billion euros in Turkey in the As part of its pre-accession.

Jean Eckian / Paris

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