Europe: A dead horse worth beating
There's no denying that united Europe's present is looking grim, at least from a French point of view. Turkey is still fuming over France's slap in the form of a law forbidding anyone to deny that the Turks practiced genocide of the Armenians during WWI.
Presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has outright rejected the possibility of Turkey's entry into the Union. I'd bet much of France would have liked to shut out Bulgaria and Romania too, but it was too late. President Jacques Chirac was forced to welcome them on January 1 as "fellow European citizens", returned to the bosom of their historical "family". But if they are part of the family, they are the cousins that no one really wants to invite to Christmas dinner.
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