"Turkish discontent
The EU debate is both anti-Turkish and anti-European.
by Bruno Waterfield
In today's European Union (EU) the question of what it is to be a European cannot be taken for granted. One fault line is the question of Turkey's EU membership. Large majorities of Europeans are opposed: over 80 per cent in Austria, over 70 per cent in France and at least 55 per cent in Germany. Are these Europeans simply racists or Christian bigots? Or is this discontent a skirmish in a culture war over what makes, and who defines, a European?"
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