"Day of EU flag, Turkey and mental fatigue
Sunday, May 8, 2011
YUSUF KANLI
With the “Arab spring” becoming a more violent whirlwind, not only is it posing imminent threats to European security, but it is also dumping thousands of refugees at the doors of Europe. Some “big” states such as France are demanding, if not abolishment, a renegotiating of the Schengen agreements; involvement of some leading members of the European club of democracies in support of the “pro-democracy” uprising in Libya, so far only in the North African country, but God knows what will happen tomorrow. With Turkish EU minister Egemen Bağış joking, “Even if we cannot get in the EU basket after all these decades at the door, we can walk on the EU balloon” and contend that “with Turkey, the EU will be higher.” To put it in a gentler way, the poor economic situation of Greece, Portugal and Ireland, described by some senior European diplomats as “Indications of a probable rough landing of the EU,” the European Union is marking today the Europe Day or the Day of the EU flag or the anniversary of the May 9, 1950 Schuman Declaration that gave the start to the unification of steelmaking and coal industries of France and Germany and thus kicked the ball rolling that eventually became today’s European Union."
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