Link between EU development and Turkish accession. How many more years of debate will there be on Turkey's EU accession prospects? The debate has been ratcheted up a notch over recent weeks, in particular following the Commission's annual report on the state of progress of negotiations, the joint declaration made by the Italian and Turkish ministers for foreign affairs and the visit by Mr Cohn-Bendit to Ankara.
As I see it, the situation has been clear for a long time. Turkish accession is...