Posted on 04/19/2018 2:44:04 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The European Commission this week revealed its 2018 enlargement report on enlargement that included Turkey, but only as a formality. Turkey is not even invited to a summit in Sofia on May 17 bringing together the leaders of the 28 EU member states and the other six candidate countries.
In recent years, reports of Turkey’s progress towards EU membership have become regress reports. This time however, the Commission, sure that Turkey would never become an EU member, has really lashed out.
The only progress highlighted in the report is in Turkey's migration and asylum policies. But the reason why is quite obvious; to keep intact the March 2016 refugee agreement in which Turkey agreed to impede refugees crossing into EU territory. Nevertheless, while Turkey welcomed Syrians who fled from the civil war, its migration and asylum policies lag far behind international standards.
Ankara has not done much to harmonise its legislation with that of the EU as it did between the years 2000 and 2007, but has regressed from the progress made during those years. Some topics that come to mind in this context are the rule of law, public procurement, the autonomy of the central bank, legislation steering labour relations and environmental legislation.
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Wonder why?
The EU picks Chicken or Beef and No Turkey
No one trusts Erdogan. Erdogan picks fights with every trading partner, and he takes in many political prisoners who voice any dissent. Much of this started that summer when the Palestinians vowed to sail a small boat close to Israel’s boundaries. Israel suspected other small vessels of smuggling weapons. Natually, Erdogan supported the lawbreaking Palestinians. This was about six or seven years ago.
Ataturk must be spinning in his grave.
Ataturk Bump!
I’m not a fan of the Kemalists either, but he was no Islamist.
I agree, but at least Ataturk envisioned Turkey as a modern, secularly governed country.
Need to kick Turkey out of NATO.
The reasons for joining were not ever the same core reasons on both sides. The EU is all idealism and little reality, and Erdogan is all expansion of his region of influence.
There is a difference between Turks in the West of the country and those in the East.
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