"Turkey and the Mediterranean Union
By Amitai Etzioni - July 9, 2008, 10:53AM
On July 13 the new EU president, Nicolas Sarkozy, will re-launch his idea of forming a community of nations on the southern side of the Mediterranean. Instead of joining the EU, nations such as Turkey, Jordan, and Israel will be called upon to form a union of their own, which in turn will have a close relationship with the northern community, the EU. It is an idea whose time has come (and which we have been advocating since 2004)."
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