"EU right to rebuff Austria on Turkey
The European Union has finally cleared the way to opening membership talks with Turkey, after wisely rejecting an attempt by Austria to put unacceptable conditions on the negotiations.
Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, should be congratulated on leading the rescue effort in Luxembourg. And a reassuring phone call from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey also helped mitigate the Turks' understandable bitterness over this process."
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