"David Cameron is right: the EU is treating Turkey abominably
By Daniel Hannan Politics Last updated: July 27th, 2010
The EU is treating Turkey shabbily. Singly, member states have perfectly consistent policies. Some countries want, in Gladstone’s phrase, to bundle the Turk, bag and baggage, out of Europe. France, Austria and (less vocally) Germany are in this camp. Others, led by Britain, see Turkish membership as strategically valuable: a way to bolster the world’s chief Muslim democracy and perhaps, in the process, to dilute Euro-federalism. Either of these two positions is individually defensible. But, when blended, they make for a policy based on deceit. The EU holds out promises of accession without any real intent to honour them. In consequence, it risks creating the very thing it purports to fear: an alienated, snarling Islamic power on its borders."
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