The Death of Imagination

So can someone explain to me why Turkey was successful where France, Italy, and Greece have been been failing miserably and Germany is making at best mediocre progress? And while the French government worked to prevent the Italians from buying out a utility company and has vociferously opposed a takeover that doesn't even involve a French company, the goddamn National Bank of Greece buys a Turkish bank outright and there's not even a whimper of protest? Am I the only one who finds it ironic that an Islamist party is displaying more liberal economic credentials than mainstream European conservative administrations?

If that's the effect joining the EU has on your economic policy, perhaps the Turks would be better off staying out of it.