The European Commission reaffirmed its support for Turkish membership this week, as Olli Rehn reassured the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that the Commission ‘is committed to the EU accession process of Turkey ..on the basis of the negotiating framework that was adopted by unanimity by all EU member states and Turkey in October 2005’. Along with Mr Rehn, the Czech and the Swedish foreign ministers, Jan Kohout and Carl Bildt called on Ankara to ‘continue implementing the needed reforms’. Last Tuesday the Turkish Foreign Minister restated that ‘full membership is the only acceptable outcome of the negotiations process’.

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