Glum EU braces for Turkey vote on Erdogan's powers

By Robin Emmott and Gabriela BaczynskaBRUSSELS (Reuters) - A referendum in Turkey on granting President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers is unlikely to ease strained relations with the EU and risks killing off Ankara's stalled bid for membership of the bloc, officials in Brussels say."There is no good outcome," said Marc Pierini, a former European Union ambassador to Turkey now at the Carnegie Europe think-tank."There is a very wide gap between European leaders and Erdogan and I don't see that