Carl Bildt, the Swedish Foreign Minister, has visited two of Bulgaria’s neighbors in last-ditch efforts to unblock Turkey’s EU accession talks and lift obstacles to opening negotiations with Macedonia.
Bildt represented his country’s EU Presidency at unannounced meetings in both countries on Thursday, in preparation for a critical EU foreign affairs meeting scheduled for December 7.
The ministers are expected to decide on the future of Turkey’s EU negations, and the opening of accession negotiations with Macedonia.
Turkey’s talks are blocked over the country’s refusal to open its ports and airports to Cyprus, as specified in the Ankara Protocol of 2004.
Macedonia is locked in an unresolved name dispute with Greece, with the latter set to veto any forthcoming decision by the EU concerning accession negotiations.
However, no breakthrough is apparent in the carefully-worded communiqué issued following Bildt's talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and EU Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagiş on Thursday.
Spain's State Secretary for Europe Diego Lopez Garrido, who traveled alongside Bildt on behalf of the upcoming Spanish EU Presidency, said his country was hoping to secure progress in Turkey's accession talks when it takes over the rolling presidency on January 1, 2010.
There has also been little public information from Skopje, the Macedonian capital. The official news agency MINA reported that Bildt had come to "discuss a way of avoiding a possible Greek veto on the beginning of accession talks with Brussels".
Bildt, however, commented that he did not expect a Greek veto on Macedonia's bid to join the European Union.
Author: iamsoobored, 28 Nov 2009 23:19:03
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Every picture tells a story. Look at the Swedish minister--he looks like a "mensch". The Turkish moron looks like the vermin that he is.
Author: Venco66, 29 Nov 2009 00:04:23
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True , the moron looks like a perky rat eager for a good meal ....
Author: CIAwhores, 29 Nov 2009 03:11:33
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Carl Bildt -the "Bilderbergers guy" David Rockerfellers liitle nancy dressed up in Swedish respectability hiding a neo-liberal economic agenda..Davatoglu is Saudi-backed and a dangerous viper a "neo ottoman" with fantasies of a new turkish empire
Author: NellieotAmerica, 29 Nov 2009 03:30:26
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whore
" with fantasies of a new turkish empire"
Yes, new Muslim world order. Erdogan is pursuing an Islamic foreign policy featuring publicized meetings with the most radical leaders in the Muslim world, e.g., the chiefs of Iran, Sudan, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas. Erdogan welcomed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to Istanbul at a time when the International Criminal Court was seeking his arrest for mass murder in Darfur.
Turkey chairs the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) a religious assembly currently promoting an international statute making it a worldwide crime to criticize Islam. Turkey's embrace of terrorists undermines its traditional close military-diplomatic-commercial-tourism ties with Europe.
Author: turkishboy24, 1 Dec 2009 17:51:09
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tack för sverige för att ni stöttar Turkiet mot nagra rasister. turkiet ska ga in EU emedan rasister fortsatter tala mot Turkiet. de ska göra ingenting! vi ska se vad som skulle handa snart....
Author: DrFaust, 1 Dec 2009 17:57:33
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Hej turkishboy,
your Swedish is awesome, but I doubt you will find many people on this forum that will be able to follow you...
Author: FIGMENT, 1 Dec 2009 18:08:04
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Turkish vermin will enter the EU in 2020 or so. Good luck with that!
How do these liberal douche bags become politicians in Sweden?!?
Author: FIGMENT, 1 Dec 2009 18:10:38
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" your Swedish is awesome, but I doubt you will find many people on this forum that will be able to follow you..."
That's priceless!
For everything else, there's Google translate!
Author: Bill, 1 Dec 2009 18:22:50
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Nellie:
"For everything else, there's Google translate!"
If you trust that, you're really insane. I've seen some of their translations, and they're terrible. At least the German ones.
Author: turkishboy24, 1 Dec 2009 18:28:32
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figment u need google translate not me! have u ever thought that i could know scandinavian languages(swe-nor-dan)... who can know aha maybe i can do!
Author: Bill, 1 Dec 2009 18:55:47
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"tack för sverige för att ni stöttar Turkiet mot nagra rasister. turkiet ska ga in EU emedan rasister fortsatter tala mot Turkiet. de ska göra ingenting! vi ska se vad som skulle handa snart...."
Now THERE was a golden opportunity for WW to come on with something constructive, but her silence is deafening.
Norwegian and Swedish are different, certainly, but with knowledge of one, you can at least get the gist out of the other, if not the details.
Even I can get some Swedish from practice years ago, and even my German is somewhat helpful. I haven't used Scandanavian language since shortly after I left college, so I wouldn't dare to try a translation here.
Author: DrFaust, 1 Dec 2009 19:29:00
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Bill,
"Now THERE was a golden opportunity for WW to come on with something constructive, but her silence is deafening."
You are right. But I am not missing her arrogant and irrelevant sniper attacks.
Author: Al, 1 Dec 2009 19:31:33
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Bill,
The boy's Swedish is rather helpless.
A translation from Swedish to English done by WW (or me for that matter) will not produce a more meaningful result, than a Google machine translation.
Author: Bill, 1 Dec 2009 20:31:28
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Al:
That may well be true. All I can say is that my sister has tried some German translations by Google, and sent me the results. They're hilarious.
Author: WickedWitch, 1 Dec 2009 20:42:51
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Uhm, some of us actually have lives that are spent offline.
