State of the EU

Submitted by Levent (Turkey), Jan 2, 2006 at 09:22

The EU is just a trading bloc and its power exists only as a trading bloc. It will never have any geopolitical influence beyond this without the likes of Turkey or Ukraine.

Although large, the economies of the countries in the EU that matter are mostly stagnant and they cannot ignore a market of 80 million people forever if they wish for this to change - they will open their markets without us joining. Do we have to open access to our borders to a wider world or our very large and very well equipped army? No. They will continue to dither while NATO steps in, taking a good portion of their members with them leaving Chirac and co to sulk.

Turkey is a poor country because it has spent is entire existence surrounded by extremists of all forms while its strength of identity has ensured the survival of its secular democracy. Starting from communist Russia, down through radical shiite Iran, all the despots and wahabi promoting monarchs of the arab world and north africa, around to our catholic/orthodox neighbours to our west who have been and still are backwards abortion banners, communists, archbishop electors etc. They have now taken this sort of thing into the EU, which it apparently has no issue with. And why should it? What is afterall the EU.

Currently, it is a bloc headed by Austria, a country of infamous neo-nazi leanings where far right nutcases like Haider frequently win elections - and who have just ordered that their first order of business as EU leaders should be Croatian entry into the EU - yes, the same Croatia that just last decade visited a massacre on Bosnian Muslims as soon as the Serbs stopped doing the same to them, the same Croatia that still flies the same Nazi flag it was flying back when it was helping Nazi Germany.

Glad to see Chirac has shut up about things that happened before the Turkish Republic even existed - no sooner had he closed his mouth than the Algerians reminded him what they think of modern day Frances genocide there. If he spoke any further, perhaps the Rwandans might have got the same idea...

Oh, and if you haven't noticed, the EU have finally accepted the PKK as a terrorist group rather than a political party - naive fools had been taking these people as victims in for decades while they killed 30,000 of us. They flooded your streets with heroin and sent the money back here to kill us with. Now that they gave your enlightened selves a dose, you soon changed your tune.

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