By entering the entry negotiations, Turkey also enters into obligations in regard to recognizing all the countries within the EU and the obligations Ankara has signed up to.

We've had a very interesting working dinner, ... We can start negotiations with Turkey on the basis of the analysis of the commission.

I would find it grotesque if we begin negotiations with Turkey and leave Croatia out the door to starve, ... It's important that the voice of Germany is heard more clearly here.

We want to start negotiations, and we are working for this but within the framework of the realities,

Any countries in the regions which have situations in the rural areas similar to what we have here in Turkey could obviously have some diseases in animals and potentially in humans and that requires to strengthen surveillance systems both for humans and animals and to take all the measures necessary to control diseases in animals.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.