Turkey and the EU
11/08/09
I'm definitely convincend that Turkey doesn't have to join the EU.
1. The main reason is that it's so huge and it risks the destroy the weak equilibrium of the EU. Turkey would be the second largest country of the EU, larger than Italy or France.
2. Cultural reasons are not the real problem, considering we've in the same Union both Portugal and Finland. Religious questions are doubts because it seems that in all the EU countries religion is a secondary aspect in daily life. The real problem is that it's already complex to decide in 27 (now 28 with Iceland). If we accept such a big and complex country it will become too much. It's already complex now and we're unable to decide that accepting Turkey we'll be definitely blocked everything. Furthermore, Turkey is so unpopolar across Europeans that political integration will be very hard.
3. Do we want a political integration or just a common market? With Turkey, we must renonce to the first option, which is my dream.
4. I don't accept that the US decides who has to join the EU. The US made so many mistakes in the area and I don't why the EU should solve them weakening itself.
5. We could have other forms of cooperation with Turkey, like NATO for militar alliance, or a permanent agreement for free trade.
6. Is the EU the answer to the problem of Turkey? Given the experience of other countries, it isn't. Turkey doesn't come out from a dictatorship, like Spain or Poland. I don't understand in which way their accession could help them: accession a weak Union, weakening it, it doesn't seem a cleaver solution.
Finally, it could be that in the next 25 years situation will change and that previous problems will be overcomed. We'll see. If I think to the EU 25 years ago was so different, that in the next 25 years could change everything.
By the way, I'm absolutely convincend that this is not the priority of the EU. I think is much more urgent to solve following problems
1. adopt a Constitution with some kind of majority vote
2. solve the ambiguous position of the UK.
3. in terms of accession, priority are Croatia, Norway and FYROM. While, we should discuss more about Switzerland (and also Liechtenstein&co).
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Let me add the fact that Turkey isn't so developed to become a leader for the EU, as Germany or France are.
According to our experience, the accession of big countries belove the average of the EU development has been problematic, like in the case of Poland.
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