Will Turkey ever join the EU?
May 30, 2009 Leave a comment
By Emma Brooks
Turkey is desperately trying to become a member state of the EU, whilst other members (such as France and Germany) are desperately trying to prevent it from doing so. So what exactly is the big debate about? One could first point to the more obvious reason that Turkey still has a long way to go before it completes all the chapters of the accession program set out by the EU for candidate countries. Until it has done so, it will not be able to be considered fully for membership. And yet, Turkey has been a candidate to the EU for ten years now. It would be justifiable to ask what exactly is taking so long: are they simply stalling negotiations so as to delay Turkey’s accession to the EU? Or is Turkey genuinely not complying with the reforms requested and therefore stalling its own accession? Read more of this post
