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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Austria should've held out, but it matters not. There is no chance whatsoever IMHO that Turkey will ever be part of the European Union. It's all a grand political show for nothing. Any EU member state that holds a referendum on Turkish accession will reject it by a supermajority, and there will be at least a couple that hold referendums.


73 posted on 10/03/2005 11:15:20 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
There is no chance whatsoever IMHO that Turkey will ever be part of the European Union.

Sorry my friend but that does not tally with the recent historical record of the EU. There any number of decisions that from a purely rational view seemed to be impossible and directly harmful to the various countries and even to the EU as a whole, (eg: the euro, inviting Greece into the euro, the EU constitution (the voters in France and NL said no, not the pols) the accession of the Eastern bloc countries, soon to include Bulgaria, and Romania etc) but they have all come to fruition or is about to. So, unless the EU implodes which is not totally impossible, Turkey will become a member, as will Croatia. Let me end with another prediction: We know from polls that 80% of the Austrians are against a Turkish entry. They wanted their government to stick up for them. The government failed. I predict that after the next election Jörg Haider will form the new Austrian government.

79 posted on 10/03/2005 11:25:37 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: AntiGuv
"Any EU member state that holds a referendum on Turkish accession will reject it by a supermajority"

Really ? I don't think so.
109 posted on 10/04/2005 6:37:13 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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