Two leaders speak out. Developments have been pretty momentous. I had barely formulated a few ideas on the way in which divergences on Turkey could be prevented from wreaking havoc in the European Union (see this section 17 September), when two senior officials came out with almost the same views. Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker considered that if negotiations opened up (it would be necessary to respect Turkey as an interlocutor), things need not necessarily culminate in...