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...Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, an independent London-based think tank...
...Turkey's Place in Europe Re Katinka Barysch's article "Europe's Turkey Problem" [April 13]. Once more, we are told that the E.U. simply has to accept Turkey as a member country. Not doing so, says the article, "would be a mistake of historic proportions." Translation: America wants to accommodate Turkey and at the same time kill off any possibility of Europe making independent decisions. The U.S. thinks it is entitled to tell us which countries we should include, regardless of how alien, oppressive or hostile to genuine secular values they are. Öjevind Laang, LUND, SWEDEN...
...Barysch failed to state the main reason why Europe and Turkey will probably never get along. There are too few common elements linking them. Turkey can't be seriously considered European in terms of history, geography, culture, religion or politics. European countries share common historic, religious, political and legal values, such as the rule of law, freedom of speech and the outright ban on armed forces participating in any political activity. Unfortunately, these are of very little importance to Turkey. This country, whose strategic value has been vastly overestimated, continues to bully, demanding that the E.U. adapts to its unacceptably...
...Katinka Barysch is deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, an independent London-based think tank...
...part, because the countries had opened up their capital accounts and sold off their banks to Western Europe at the E.U.'s urging. Financial liberalization and free trade were mantras recited by the E.U. (and others) as the Eastern states readied to join. The policies work. But as Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform in London wrote recently, they have also "left the region exceptionally vulnerable in the downturn." Populist Eastern politicians may now use the crisis, and the perceived lack of Western help, to roll back reforms...