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The EU is politically and morally obliged to open accession negotiations with Turkey but this will in no way determine the result, this will depend on factors that are largely unknown

I have certainly not cluttered the columns of this section with considerations and commentaries on the issue of Turkey; in fact I haven't written anything about it for a long time. The different positions were so numerous, sometimes coming from well-known personalities, that to add another would have not been very interesting. The controversy was so sharp and the opinions so different that some newspapers presented the two opposing positions on the same page - one in favour of Turkey's...