The crisis was first sparked by the recent French and Dutch "no" votes to the EU constitutional treaty, which some said reflected -- at least partly -- the voters' reservations to an expansion that would include Turkey.
Prvi uzrok krize bilo je "ne" Francuske i Nizozemske sporazumu o europskom ustavu, koje je prema nekima odrazilo -- barem dijelom -- suzdržanost glasača prema proširenju koje bi uključivalo Tursku.