Wednesday, April 27, 2005

EU Constitution and Turkey

One interesting aspect of a likely French 'No' vote on EU constitution uis the fact that it will decrease Turkeys chances to EU ascension.
Why ?
Even though there are no technical reasons preventing Turkey joining the EU, the pyschological blow from the "no" vote could be very big. If a EU can not agree of a fairly straighforward issue, then a huge, controversial issue of admitting an entire country with an alien to EU history, population, religion and mindset will likely fail. As French polls indicate, the EU process has lost the credibility with the constituent population, and no matter how much the ruling elites try to repackage and sell the idea, the public is not in mood for buying.

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1 comment:

Hakob Gevorgian said...

I think that Turkey will recognize the Armenian Genocide (in the Ottoman Empire only). And that will allow them to enter the EU.