The Luxembourg rebuff
Europe needs to repair relations with Turkey, fast
IF THE European Union summit last weekend ever comes to be regarded as historic, it is likely to be because of a historic mistake. Unless matters are put right, historians may look back to the Luxembourg meeting and judge it to be the occasion when Europe needlessly offended Turkey, thus increasing that country's sense of exclusion, its reluctance to reform, its awkwardness over Cyprus and NATO and perhaps its readiness to embrace either Islamic or quasi-military rule. Not bad for two days' work.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “The Luxembourg rebuff”
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