Europe and Turkey need each other – but not in an EU context
Sunday, October 2, 2011
MORTEN MESSERSCHMIDT
The “Turkish question” is still on the EU agenda and discussions as well as negotiations over Turkish membership of the EU have been taking place for decades. But we have to scrutinize the situation carefully and ask ourselves whether it is in the interest of Europe and the wishes of a more and more self-confident Turkish population to become the 28th member state of the EU. Has Turkey asked herself whether the typical EU centralized model of legislation serves her interests as an independent nation? Has Turkey asked herself whether she can live with a model where around 75 percent of the legislation is proposed by a non-elected body of commissioners in Brussels?
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