Bigger EU 'must include Cyprus'

Berlin - There can be no enlargement of the EU which does not include Cyprus, the EU Enlargement Commissioner, Mr Guenter Verheugen…

Berlin - There can be no enlargement of the EU which does not include Cyprus, the EU Enlargement Commissioner, Mr Guenter Verheugen, argued in a German newspaper interview published yesterday.

Mr Verheugen told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that enlargement was not conceivable without the inclusion of Cyprus as a member. "There will either be an enlargement with Cyprus, or there will be no rapid enlargement at all," he said.

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