"Turkey and the hypocrisies of Europe
Fred Halliday
16 - 12 - 2004
Fred Halliday dissects four underlying arguments against Turkey�s admission to the European Union - and finds them all wanting.
The European Union is attempting to create common European institutions and policy: a worthy and desirable project, if a pale reflection of the original, liberal-internationalist aims of the 1950s. It has agreed two momentous decisions in 2004: the inclusion of ten new member-states, and the foundation of its legal identity embodied in a new constitution. Now, at a summit in Brussels on 16-17 December 2004, it faces a third: whether to open negotiations with Turkey that will lead to that country�s membership of the European Union. "
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