France's position is unchanged. There's nothing new on Turkey at European level. Neither the election of a new Turkish president nor the calming words of Nicolas Sarkozy have, in my opinion, altered the situation. The French president's position, opposing Turkey's accession to the EU and in favour of a wider and stronger partnership, has not changed. The analyses which I read of the speech Mr Sarkozy gave in Paris on 27 August are inaccurate. Maybe I was unlucky in my choice of reading. Let...