"London offers Croatian deal to save Turkey talks
Le Figaro reports that with just five days to go before EU talks are supposed to open with Turkey, the UK presidency has turned to Croatia’s bid to open talks in an attemp"t to quell any remaining resistance.
Ankara's entry talks have stalled over the precise wording of where the talks could eventually lead.
The Austrian government, under pressure from the right wing populist politician, Jorg Haider, has still not given its consent to a sentence that says that the “common objective of the negotiations with Turkey is accession”.
But Vienna is keen for the EU to begin accession talks with Croatia, even though Zagreb is believed to be harbouring indicted war criminals reports the Telegraph."
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