FRENCH MPS CONDEMN SENATE FOR DROPPING MEASURE REQUIRING REFERENDUM ON TURKEY’S MEMBERSHIP IN EU
PanARMENIAN.Net
01.07.2008 15:32 GMT+04:00
French MPs prepared a statement condemning the French Senate for not
passing a constitutional amendment that would have put Turkey’s future
EU membership to a referendum.
"England held a referendum in 1972. Can you imagine that we behave
differently as regards Turkey, Russia, Morocco or Ukraine," the
statement said, Anatolia News Agency reports.
On June 26, France’s Senate dropped a measure from a proposed law that
requires a referendum on Turkey’s membership in the European Union. It
was one of the most sensitive parts of a broader institutional
reform package going through the French Parliament and required a
referendum before France could approve EU membership for any country
whose population exceeds 5 per cent of the population of the entire
27-nation union.
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