Desperate Europe tiptoes around Turkey to clinch refugee deal
David Gardner David Gardner
The EU, buffeted by the migrant panic, the continuing fallout from the financial and eurozone crises, and the possibility of a British departure from the union, is being pushed into alliance with leaders who hold its values in contempt. Paralysed into tawdry realpolitik, it is surrendering soft power: the attraction of an open society based on shared and codified values of freedom.
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