All Politics Is Local, Even In France

Bagehot finds Cameron's championing EU membership for Turkey tone deaf to the politics of various EU countries:

In Germany...it is a big deal that if Turkey did achievemembership in 2025, say, it is projected to have a larger populationthan any other EU country. That would give Turkey, overnight, thelargest delegation of members of the European Parliament. Thatprofoundly shocks Germans, who take the EP rather seriously. InBritain, many people could not care less if a delegation of...