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58 percent of French oppose Turkish EU entry: poll | |
2006-10-20 | |
The poll was taken in the wake of the row over the adoption last week by the French lower house of parliament of a bill that would make denial of the Armenian “genocide” a punishable offence. Friday’s poll findings were in line with a Europe-wide survey taken in June, which put French hostility to Turkish entry at 55 percent. However the Eurobarometer survey also indicated that opposition in France is only slightly more than in the EU as a whole -- where 48 percent are against Turkish entry -- and well behind several individual countries. Nine states were more hostile than France to Ankara’s membership bid, including Austria at 81 percent and Germany -- which has a large Turkish population -- at 69 percent. | |
Posted by:Steve White |