Paris Faces Pressure As Turkish PM Drops In On Franco-German Summit
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France will come under renewed pressure on Tuesday to soften its stance on Turkey's bid to join the European Union when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan drops in on a Franco-German summit in Berlin.
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The French President, Jacques Chirac, further muddied debate over Turkish membership of the European Union by declaring he wants to change France's constitution so the issue is eventually put to a vote in a ...
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Description: European heads of state gather in Brussels for a summit to begin talks over Turkish membership in the European Union.
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German and French leaders raise fears  over the impact of job cuts at Airbus before a key summit on Friday.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Monday celebrated a decisive poll victory but now faces challenges over delayed presidential elections, Kurdish separatist violence and Ankara's troubled EU bid.
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Turkey is not yet ready to join the European Union but should pursue its membership bid, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said Thursday at the start of a parliamentary debate over an issue that has ...
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Ireland and France are both under huge pressure going into Friday's vital World Cup clash in Paris.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy dispatched an envoy to Ankara last weekend to try to calm tensions over his adamant opposition to Turkey entering the European Union, Le Figaro newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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The EU sought Wednesday to keep pressure on Turkey over its bid to start talks on joining the bloc, as last-minute haggling seemed set to go down to the wire at a summit poised to give a green light to Ankara.
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Turkey's leaders are coming under severe public pressure to act against Kurdish rebels, after an attack on troops.
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Airbus faced growing paralysis on Tuesday over plans to axe thousands of jobs as French and German politicians quarrelled over the cuts and Berlin dampened hopes of a quick solution at a bilateral summit this ...Comment
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PARIS France&#39;s effort to secure the release of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq appeared to be in disarray Monday after a conservative member of Parliament and self-styled mediator revealed he had lost contact with the kidnappers over the
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to meet EU enlargement chief Guenter Verheugen this week, officials said Tuesday as Ankara seeks to defuse a spat with Brussels ahead of a crunch EU report.
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French President Jacques Chirac said, in a discrete statement at a European Union (EU) summit in Brussels, that EU leaders who oppose Turkey&#39;s future membership are behaving irresponsibly.
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German, French and Turkish leaders meet, with Ankara's EU bid expected to be high on the agenda.
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The French and German leaders avoid setting a deadline for Turkey to comply with EU demands.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold her first summit with the leaders of France and Poland on Tuesday, less than a month before Berlin takes over the European Union presidency amid high hopes that it can resolve power struggles in the bloc.