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Article: The European Union decides it might one day talk Turkey.(Turkey moves closer to being a memer of the European Union, thanks to the efforts of Javier Solana)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 18, 1999
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The EU's summit last weekend was a success--and not just because another seven countries were brought closer to joining the club
WHEN the European Union made Javier Solana its first "high representative" for foreign and security policy in June, this co- opting of a former secretary-general of NATO provoked two common observations. He was a good man to have on side; the Kosovo war had shown that. But what on earth would he do in his new job? By anyone's reckoning it would be at least a decade or two until the EU developed a true common foreign and security policy that he might plausibly claim to represent.
A partial answer came when the ...