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The Copenhagen Summit will go down in history as a summit of total incoherence. Hardly had it prepared the ground for the reunification of Europe when it put in place a process that would completely change its nature, by improperly extending its boundaries to encompass a country that is in Asia.
Flying in the face of the geographical and historical evidence, Copenhagen has not only failed to make up for the mistakes of Helsinki, but has even compounded its 1999 mistake of misleading Turkey and has embarked on a course of action that will ultimately make Ankara the dominant power in the European Union.
Instead of offering Turkey its rightful place within a close Euro-Mediterranean partnership, which respects the specific characteristics of each country, in short, which is adapted to geopolitical realities, the European Council has preferred the ideology of making no distinction between countries, flavoured with a hint of anti-Christianity.
The day following the Copenhagen Summit, a major Parisian daily ran the headline ‘Bush opens Europe’s door to Turkey’. The European Council has indeed given in to pressure from the US and the joint NATO/EU letter issued after the summit attests to this. It suggests that Turkey should henceforth be fully involved in the Union’s foreign security and defence policy. Copenhagen has therefore put in place all the necessary elements to ensure that the European Union will never see the light of day."@en1
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