"Congar
Columnist Yasemin Congar comments on Turkey�s relations with the European Union and the United States. A summary of her column is as follows:
�Current European Union President Luxembourg�s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker spoke of a �profound crisis� in Europe after the EU leaders� failure to reach an agreement on the Union's future budget at the Brussels summit over the weekend. Rejected by the French and Dutch, the EU�s constitutional treaty is now considered dead by most Europeans. The EU is suffering from an institutional crisis and is questioning its future as a bloc. Possible repercussions of the current crisis on Turkey�s membership bid will probably be directly connected with this institutional aspect. �Can the EU sustain an enlargement process even if it does not have effective institutions to operate a larger bloc?� asked French President Jacques Chirac. "
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