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"Defining what's in and what's out of the Copenhagen criteria certainly goes far beyond the personal opinions of some unelected EU administrators" (Photo: European Armenian Federation)

Turkey: Copenhagen criteria or Stockholm syndrome?

The Armenian genocide has recently come back into the limelight. The September adoption by the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee of a resolution calling for the recognition by Turkey of this genocide as a precondition for EU accession was the initial cause of this comeback.

The paragraph was removed from the final resolution in the parliament's plenary following intense lobbying by Turkey.

The high level of pressure mainly revealed the critical situation of the EU ...

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"Defining what's in and what's out of the Copenhagen criteria certainly goes far beyond the personal opinions of some unelected EU administrators" (Photo: European Armenian Federation)

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