"Europe's miscue with Turkey
December 17, 2006
The 25 foreign ministers of the European Union embarrassed themselves last week when they agreed to punish Turkey for refusing to open its ports and airfields to the Greek Republic of Cyprus. The EU decision to slow down accession talks with Turkey in eight of the 35 'chapters' being negotiated makes sense only as a face-saving way to split the difference between EU members that wanted a harsher punishment and those that want to avoid antagonizing Turkey."
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