EU Accession, E.U. Accession Quotes

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.

Turkey has in interest in finding agreement on more permissive visa requirements, it wants to be recognized as a safe country of origin and it wants to finally return to constructive EU accession negotiations. We Europeans decide all of those things together.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

Turkey must feel at ease. It mustn't say, 'For me, it's the European Union at all costs.' That's my view.

It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.