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Playing Games Without Frontiers - James Carver MEP

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Channel: UKIP MEPs · 2015 · News & Politics

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• European Parliament, Strasbourg, 16 December 2015

• Bluecard Question: James Carver MEP (West Midlands),  UK Independence Party (UKIP), Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group. http://www.jamescarver.org | @JamesJimCarver
- Response: Guy Verhofstadt MEP (Belgium), President of the Liberal group (ALDE)

• Debate: Preparation of the European Council meeting of 17 and 18 December 2015
Council and Commission statements
[2015/2913(RSP)]

Question: Bill Etheridge MEP (UKIP, EFDD group)

What I wonder is do you still hold with your party and your leader's long-term aim to give full EU membership to Turkey, and if that's the case when would like to see that happen?

Response: Syed Kamall MEP (Tories, ECR group)

Actually, I think that we all need to be completely honest with Turkey. I have said this a number of times, let's be honest Turkey will never join the EU.

I'm sorry but there are too many reasons why Turkey will not join, some of them based on pure prejudice about their faith and about Turks, some because people believe Turkey is not in Europe, some because they want a common foreign security policy and they do not want the borders to be with Iran, Syria and Iraq.

Also others because they worry given the population of Turkey the number of MEPs they will have and the votes in council, you put all those reasons together, actually we've got to stop being dishonest with Turkey. It is time for all of us to be honest and say they will never be members of the EU.
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• Video: EbS (European Parliament)
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