"Turkey is not forced to choose between EU and Cyprus"

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
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Message Posted:
01/02/2011 21:18

Natasha Butler- the Spokesperson for the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Füle- has said that the European Union is not pressuring Turkey to choose between the EU membership and Cyprus. Speaking to the Anatolian News Agency, the EU Spokesperson Natasha Butler reiterated the EU Commission’s support towards a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem and confirmed Turkey’s significant contribution towards a settlement.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
01/02/2011 21:19

Noting that the EU is not forcing Turkey to make a choice between EU membership and Cyprus, Butler however said that the Cyprus issue had an impact on many other important political issues.

Füle’s Spokesperson added that a comprehensive settlement in Cyprus will have a positive effect on Turkey’s EU accession process.

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
01/02/2011 21:58

For the millionth time, Turkey should open her borders to RoC and charge them a million times what they charge everybody else, after all the EU is not a communist system is it?

Long live capitalism.

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
02/02/2011 01:17

yfred,



as an institution the eu is neither communist or capitalist

...it is a vast and wasteful beauracracy



while some would say it mainly operates in the interest

of eu founding fathers, france and germany



and the poorer and peripheral states still enjoy kickbacks

in exchange for their votes



perhaps it isn't entirely a christian club

since there is talk of membership for kosovo and bosnia

...but big moslem countries "need not apply", surely