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In light of Cameron's recent breathtakingly butt-kissing speech in Turkey... it's time to ask some serious questions.
The below excerpt using a quote by Belgium's Van Rompuy from a few years previous.
Mr Cameron: do we really want Turkey in the EU?
Van Rompuy is right: Turkey is not, and will Never be, a part of Europe
By William Oddie // 28 July 2010
The below excerpt using a quote by Belgium's Van Rompuy from a few years previous.
Mr Cameron: do we really want Turkey in the EU?
Van Rompuy is right: Turkey is not, and will Never be, a part of Europe
By William Oddie // 28 July 2010
What are we to make of David Cameron’s ‘anger’ towards those in Europe who are frustrating progress towards Turkish membership of the EU? The argument you tend to hear in favour of this is that Turkey stands at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, and that it will help Europe establish a community of interest with Muslim countries (well, some of them, anyway).
The price of that, however, is that we change the whole culture of the EU: to begin with, overnight the Muslim population of the EU will rise to around 20%. France and Germany oppose this on the grounds that it will lead to a huge influx of Turkish immigrants: Germany already has 4 million of them.
Turkey would be the EU’s second largest country after Germany.
The cultural arguments against this change are clear enough, and have been expressed by the ‘President of Europe’ Herman Van Rompuy, as follows: “Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe. An expansion of the EU to include Turkey cannot be considered as just another expansion as in the past . . . The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigour with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey”.
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