The EU assents to the partial freezing of discussions with Ankara

Daniel Vigneron, chief editor of the daily, believes that the accession of a reformed Turkey can allow the EU to change its status. "The Union is no doubt an economic power. But will it remain so in 30 years time? On a political level it barely is anymore. Not only because it was unable to pool together the substantial defence resources available or to define sufficiently federative geo-strategic interests, but also because it did not find the legitimacy to resolve conflicts in the most explosive zone of the region, the Middle-East. Strengthened by an incontrovertible Muslim Turkey in the region and Nato's No.2 military power, endowed with human and economic potential of no equivalent on the continent, the EU can find the means to exercise its power on this terrain. The price to pay, that of enlargement - and not a dilution- of its identity, is not high. The future has a name: the Euro-Mediterranean Union.”

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