Nothing Preventing Turkey’s EU Process Now

Yesterday’s edition of the British newspaper The Guardian writes that Turkey and Europe will gradually affiliate and that the process cannot be prevented. In the paper’s discussion of the Turkey-EU relationship, it reminds that Turkey would the most crowded and poorest of the EU members, not to mention that it is predominantly Muslim.

Germany’s Der Spiegel paper writes that debates within the ruling Social Democrat Party occurred over Turkey’s EU membership. Spain’s Al Pais paper defends that "the matter of Turkey’s EU membership split the EU in half."

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that "Turkey will be able to be an EU member within 10 or 15 years. The contribution of Turkey to the EU is of considerable importance."