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"It is not impossible that Turkey might commit some act of folly - such as a military coup - that would disbar the country, at least for a while - and let Europe of the hook" (Photo: EUobserver)

Turkey may be France's price for the new EU treaty

Two weeks ago I suggested in these pages that from a European perspective the French Presidential contender Ségolène Royal might be a better choice than Nicolas Sarkozy.

I argued that it would be necessary to put any revised constitutional treaty to a second referendum in France (the alternative would be to enlarge the EU's democratic deficit to dangerous proportions). As the opposition to the first treaty had come, at least in part, from a perception that it would undermine the French...

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"It is not impossible that Turkey might commit some act of folly - such as a military coup - that would disbar the country, at least for a while - and let Europe of the hook" (Photo: EUobserver)

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