Austria vs. Turkey
Here we go...
Let's be honest, folks. These two lines...
"popular concerns over its expansion"
"people's concerns about he EU's ability to truly welcome new member states"
... can be translated into one word: racism. Turks are to Europe as Mexicans are to America; the only difference is that Turks learn the languages of the countries they move to. Turks have been trying to be part of Europe for a very long time, at least the last century and a half, and the Europeans, even the Brits, have screwed them at every possible juncture. Before the outbreak of World War I, the Brits were building a warships for the Turks, and when the war started the Brits confiscated them and neglected to even refund the Turks' money; when the Kaiser's Germany offered the Germans a couple of ships, it worked like gang busters.
If the Turks did score EU membership, they'd probably wind up being the second-strongest state there, after the United Kingdom. Honestly, though, if I were Turkey, I'd drop the accession bid; they'll never be equals with their fellow EU members, even if they're better than the rest of the EU. The bottom line, though, is that this masked racism from the EU is going to come back to bite everyone in one way or another. Leave it to European politicians to screw up something that should be a good thing.
Austria has again urged the EU to offer Turkey an alternative to full membership of the bloc, days before talks on Turkey's accession bid.
Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said he wanted the EU to acknowledge popular concerns over its expansion.
EU ministers will hold emergency talks on Sunday to try and resolve the deadlock over Turkey's membership bid.
Turkey says it must have the ultimate promise of full membership before it enters EU accession talks on Monday.
Chancellor Schuessel told Austrian television on Friday that he was not setting out "new conditions for Turkey".
But, he said, "it was necessary to understand people's concerns about the EU's ability to truly welcome" new member states.
Let's be honest, folks. These two lines...
... can be translated into one word: racism. Turks are to Europe as Mexicans are to America; the only difference is that Turks learn the languages of the countries they move to. Turks have been trying to be part of Europe for a very long time, at least the last century and a half, and the Europeans, even the Brits, have screwed them at every possible juncture. Before the outbreak of World War I, the Brits were building a warships for the Turks, and when the war started the Brits confiscated them and neglected to even refund the Turks' money; when the Kaiser's Germany offered the Germans a couple of ships, it worked like gang busters.
If the Turks did score EU membership, they'd probably wind up being the second-strongest state there, after the United Kingdom. Honestly, though, if I were Turkey, I'd drop the accession bid; they'll never be equals with their fellow EU members, even if they're better than the rest of the EU. The bottom line, though, is that this masked racism from the EU is going to come back to bite everyone in one way or another. Leave it to European politicians to screw up something that should be a good thing.
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