After a bit of drama, Austria also gave up its opposition to the accession talks, in exchange for a promise of admission for Croatia, and the intra-European squabbles have been patched up. So the British, under Tony Blair’s current presidency of the EU Council of Ministers, have gotten their way for now, and the Americans – keen backers of Turkey’s EU aspirations – have once again succeeded in acting as a “European power.”
一阵激变之后，奥地利也不再反对入盟谈判。作为交换，它得到了克罗地亚入盟的保证。这场欧洲内部的争论终于终结。于是，英国作为欧盟轮值主席国暂时如愿以偿。美国积极支持土耳其入盟的愿望，也再一次成功地扮演了“欧洲列强”的角色。土耳其的入盟谈判现在成为了既成事实。