Premier Matteo Renzi said
after an EU-Turkey summit on migration Friday that Turkey's
joining the EU will take time. "The process of Turkey's entering
the EU is very, very complex," Renzi said. "Today it was decided
to take a step forward, but the road will be neither easy nor
short". Renzi added that "for the record - compared to social
media historians - in the past, both the right and the left,
both (ex-premiers Silvio) Berlusconi and (Romano) Prodi were in
favor of (Turkey's) entry...Those against were the Germans and
most of all the French, who blocked that process when - to put
it diplomatically - Turkey was far less beset by attacks and
terrorist threats than it is today".
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