".....Far more fraught is the deep rebellion against more countries joining the EU. Enough is enough, said the voters with one mighty blast. Not the Balkans, not Ukraine and above all not Turkey. The leaders have to listen, awful though this is. There is no pretending that the people didn't really mean it: they did. The last enlargement was unpopular; they want to pull up the drawbridge and keep foreigners out, especially the Turks. The new French prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, appears to agree that Europe means Christendom; the Dutch said loud and clear that too many Muslims threaten their progressive, secular values. This really is a crisis, with talks on Turkey's 2015 accession due to start in October. How can we say no, just as it reforms to meet human rights and other EU criteria? What a deadly message that sends the Islamic world, to reject a modern secular democracy. "
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