"Turkey's EU Accession "Indispensable," or Have Overtures to Ankara Gone "Too Far"?
By Lucy Jones
Europe is in a state of �naked fear,� wrote Germany�s Die Welt on Dec. 1, prior to a mid-December European Union summit at which it was decided that Turkey can begin talks on accession to the body in 2005�provided it recognizes Cyprus.
The EU already has gone �too far� with its overtures to Ankara, the newspaper opined. The union will only be able to extricate itself at the cost of �considerable damage and a substantial loss of credibility,� it warned."
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