The EU empire is crumbling.
The re-election of President Erdogan explodes the myth that Brussels has any geopolitical influence whatsoever.
CONCOUGHLIN
Any pretensions the European Union may entertain of being a major power in world affairs have been utterly exposed by the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as president of Turkey. It was not so long ago, after all, that Brussels was trying to cajole Turkey into becoming a member of the EU. Indeed, the country is still formally regarded as a candidate for accession, even though Ankara has hardly made any progress on implementing the necessary institutional reforms since 2004. DT,
