What do you think of Turkey becoming a EU member?
By jwfarrimond
@jwfarrimond (4473)
March 10, 2007 3:33am CST
Do you think that Turkey should be allowed to join the EU? I don't think so, apart from the human rights issue, Turkey is not actually a European country and it is supposed to be a European Union after all.
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@4ftfingers (1310)
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11 Mar 07
Personally, I think the EU needs to sort out it's immigration policy before anymore countries join. I am all for free movement between member states but there seems to be many dissadvantages for us in Britian as a result. Our free healthcare and schooling is taking a beating, and housing prices are absolutely diabolical.
If they want people of europe to have that kind of freedom they should make it so that we in Britian are paid similar wages to those in Europe, and our market prices are similar. Ofcourse that means paying us less. And many probably wouldn't agree with the aspect of socialism. So then alternatively, they should cap the numbers entering Britian.
The EU and our government don't seem to give a damn about first time buyers like myself, and they wonder why girls are getting pregnant younger and younger so that they can get on the list for council housing.
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
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11 Mar 07
Good points. Thanks for your comment. Personally, I've always been opposed to the whole European Union thing.. but that's another can of worms.
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@4ftfingers (1310)
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11 Mar 07
I am really unsure whereabouts I stand with it, except I agree when people say that it goes against what our brave men fought the two wars for, although the big difference being that this is a socialist form, rather than fascist. But I'd like to hear your thoughts on it if you wouldn't mind, I know it's slightly offtopic.
@jwfarrimond (4473)
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11 Mar 07
Basically I don't like the idea of being told what to do or have to comply to rules and regulations formulated by people who do not have the best interests of Britain in mind when they make these laws and regulations and who are mostly unelected "Eurocrats" anyway. But it's far to late to "get out of Europe" as the anti - EU activists put it. It would be far to difficult to pull Britain out of the EU now, we just have to live with it.
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@motorediricerca (84)
• Kazakhstan
12 Oct 07
I think it is a great idea to have Turkey as a European Union member, because they could help us to understand another kind of culture and religion. But the most important thing for me is that their Government and their people are very enthusiastic to become part of the European Union (our family!!!). Instead I'm sorry (because the author of this question is from the U.K.) to say that there are some Member States of the EU (like the U.K.) that have both their Governments and their people very Euro-sceptic!!! First of all because they don't want OUR CURRENCY (the Euro) and then because they seem to be the 51th State of the U.S.A., instead of being one of the 27 Member States of the EU!!! If I could vote for a referendum, I would exchange the U.K. membership to the EU with Turkey's membership to the EU. I'm sorry, but that's how the 2 nations are acting (one is Euro-enthusiastic and the other one is Euro-sceptic).
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
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10 Nov 07
Sorry to take so long to reply to this post, I've been on holiday and generally too busy to do anything with MyLot. We,(Britain) don't want the Euro because we already have one of the strongest currencies in the world. Why should we abandon that? And as for the UK "seeming to be the 51st state of the USA" You should not be surprised at that if you remember that Britain has much stronger historical, cultural and linguistic ties with the US and the other English speaking countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand than we have with any country in mainland Europe. You would like to exchange the UK for Turkey in the EU? That'd be fine by us! We are one of the major contributors to the EC money pot whereas Turkey would be one of the major recipiants of EC money - which of course is why they want in. Britain would be better of out, but the EC would be the poorer for our departure.
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@quanto50 (140)
• Sweden
17 Oct 07
Turkey of course doesn't fit to EU's cultural backgrounds.The country is trying to adapt to EU's reforms not to its culture.It is trying to adapt and model its economic infrastructure in order to be able to have some business and trade relations so that both EU and Turkey would benefit from it.Actually Turkeys roots lie in central asia where a lot of Turkish speaking countries live.like Kyrgyzstan ..Kazakstan..Uzbekistan.Turkmenistan.
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