The business of Turkish accession to the European Union is being handled very badly. Extremely badly, because the surfeit of opposing positions brings with it the risk of serious rifts between the Member States (as serious as the ones caused by the war in Iraq), and of poisoning the forthcoming referendums on the Constitution (which, logically, has nothing to do with it, but Turkey could become an issue in the for or against campaigns).
Divergences are everywhere. The problem with the...