Dominique Moïsi critical of Europe's policy on Turkey

Turkey has demanded freedom of travel for its citizens too after the EU waived visa requirements for Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro in December. Dominique Moïsi, a consultant at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), warns in the daily Les Echos against neglecting Turkey's interests: "'We will have the Germany that we deserve'. With these words the visionary [French historian] and Holocaust survivor Joseph Rovan described the challenge facing France, Europe and the international community. May this expression be used today for Turkey, or would that mean an artificial - even dangerous - rapprochement, a historical simplification? Although the debate about Turkey's EU accession is not so much in the limelight today as it was only yesterday, it still torments those responsible. The topic cannot be shrugged off in the hopes that it will simply go away. ... The Turkey of 2010 is no longer that of 2000. Its regional ambitions are growing, and its hopes of joining the Union one day are fading fast."

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