"New Year message: 'Geriatric' EU needs 'vigorous' Turkey
ANDREW RETTMAN
Today @ 09:24 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Turkish leader Recep Tayip Erodgan has lambasted the EU as a spent force on the international stage in an angry statement aimed at unlocking accession talks.
Writing in an op-ed in the US magazine Newsweek on Monday (17 January) the Muslim leader said: 'European labour markets and social-security systems are comatose. European economies are stagnant. European societies are near geriatric. Can Europe retain power and credibility in the new world order without addressing these issues?'"
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