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EU wipes Turkey from the euro map of Europe
European Union countries have struck Turkey off the map of Europe as represented on new euro coins, prompting protests from some lawmakers about a bias against the potential future EU member. The European Commission proposed Turkey and other countries on the EU's borders should feature on a new series of EU coins. But the final design approved by EU governments excluded Turkey whose membership of the bloc is opposed by some European countries such as France.
"Clearly the Council (of EU member states) is not embarrassed that the new European map should include, as well as Ukraine and Moldova, some dictatorships such as Belarus or authoritarian ones like Russia," European Parliament lawmakers Marco Cappato and Marco Pannella said in a statement. "But it refuses to feature a democratic country like Turkey with which accession negotiations are under way," the two Italians said. A European Commission spokeswoman confirmed the original design featuring Turkey had been changed by the Council.
Note EU-Digest: this shows a complete lack of intellectual acuity by the Council and needs to be rectified.
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