December 17th 2004: the day the European Council lost the EU people’s confidence?

Good leaders tend to be able to explain their decisions and to convince in the end their people that they made the right choice. When we look at the Turkish question, it essentially looks like the contrary process: the more people are aware of what our leaders want to do (give a green light on 17 December 2004 to accession negotiations with Turkey), the more they are against.