On top of Europe's current economic ills, Brussels is facing the problem of growing tensions with Turkey, a country having the official status of a EU candidate. Recently Ankara renewed the threat to freeze all ties with the EU if Cyprus assumes the rotating EU presidency in July, 2012... The truth seems to be that at the moment both Brussels and Ankara are implicitly drawing benefits from the conflict... A new round of tensions between Turkey and the EU should make it easier for both to save face, Cyprus as a hostage to the increasingly tough geopolitics automatically being the losing party to the game...
Pyotr ISKENDEROV | 20.09.2011 |
