"WHAT EUROPEANS THINK ABOUT TURKEY AND WHY
By Katinka Barysch
Imagine this: Nicolas Sarkozy drops his election pledge to keep Turkey out of the EU; the Cyprus issue is resolved; the EU unblocks the eight frozen chapters in the accession negotiations; successive Turkish governments plough slowly but surely through the massive reform agenda required for EU membership; an accession treaty is signed in say, 2015; but a year later, after 20 EU countries have already ratified, the French and Austrians vote against the accession in national referendums. The EU is in crisis; Turkey is enraged; other EU aspirants turn away in despair."
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