"SPEAKING FREELY
EU identity needs help from Turkey
By Mirsad Krijestorac
Recent impudent comments by Pope Benedict XVI regarding Islam have raised important issues to be examined. The question of European identity most decisively surfaced in the public sphere when the pope suggested to Le Figaro magazine that common European identity should be very strongly shaped by the feeling of necessity to defend itself from invading Islamic forces"
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