The Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has expressed doubt about the prospect of Turkish EU membership calling into question whether the country has met the EU's political criteria for joining the EU.
In a column in Danish daily Politiken, Mr Rasmussen writes "In the EU we are now hurrying towards further talks on new enlargements - with Turkey for instance. This is something that a lot of ordinary Europeans question."
"Is it not going a bit too fast? Can the EU stick to...
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