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So.....they are not full members then.

Angela Merkel win ends Turkey's EU hopes

Turkish hopes of joining the EU appeared to be all but over after Germany gave warning it was ready to join France and Italy in outright opposition to the country's membership.

Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) are both hostile to the accession of the overwhelmingly Muslim country of 71 million.

The CDU is against the Turks joining for cultural reasons while the FDP leader, and probable new foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle has said the country's economy is too far below European standards to integrate comfortably with other members. With almost three million ethnic Turks living in Germany, many as citizens, Germany also fears there would be a flood of immigrants after Turkish accession.

Merkel to establish conservative coalition Chancellor Angela Merkell has warned her Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call that Germany foreign policy was under review. An EU meeting to review the Turkish role in the unification of Cyprus in December will represent the first test of the policy.

The Turkish reaction to the German election result has been open dismay. The country's liberal broadsheet Milliyet summed up the mood in Ankara's political circles. It said: "Turkey is the loser".

The mass-market Aksam told Turks to be braced for a change in approach from Europe's biggest country. It said: "We should expect Merkel to sharpen her opposition to Turkey's membership."

The German chancellor shifted the country's stance at the outset of her first government in 2005 to a more sceptical position and has said she would prefer if Turkey was offered a "privileged position" not membership. But the Social Democrats, her previous coalition partners, blocked any move to join the other big continental powers in rejecting Turkey.

Turkey applied to join the forerunner of the EU as early as 1958 but bureaucratic hurdles have always kept it out.

Nicholas Sarkozy, the French president, has already moved to torpedo Turkish accession to the bloc by stopping ratification efforts in five key areas.

Brussels has imposed penalties on Turkey over its ban on flights and ships originating in the Greek-controlled part of Cyprus. Turkey's military still has up to 40,000 personnel in Cyprus, more than 30 years after it sent an expeditionary force to protect the Turkish population of the island. Cyprus became an EU member at the end of 2007 just after a reunification agreement collapsed and Brussels has since been embroiled in torturous negotiations to resolve the divide.

Huseyin Ozgurgan, the foreign minister of northern Cyprus, has complained that the EU is a "negative player" in the reunification negotiations.

Author:	wannabeeahack [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:45 pm ]
Post subject:	Great Britain 2009
A STRICKEN gangster lies dying in the street with gunshot wounds as police hold back his distraught girlfriend. A motorbike assassin shot dead Oktay Erbasli, 23, as he sat at the wheel of his Range Rover in rush-hour traffic. His girlfriend and five-year-old stepson were miraculously unharmed in Tottenham, North London. Cops believe Erbasli was the victim of a vicious drug war between rival Turkish gangs. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -hour.html ------------------------ THE gang leader caged with two fellow savages for knifing to death Ben Kinsella is CROWING how he is still the "King of Swagger" behind bars. Evil Michael Alleyne, 18, shows NO remorse for the GCSE student's murder in a sickening letter from his cell - which he signs as from the "Stab Gang". http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... agger.html ------------------------------ A SEVEN months pregnant woman was raped by a burglar as two accomplices held her husband at gunpoint, it was revealed yesterday. Three masked men burst into the couple's home and the beast frogmarched the mum-to-be to a bedroom. Last night, the 33-year-old victim revealed that the rapist told her "It's your lucky day" as he carried out a sickening assault. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -home.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- AN asylum seeker with HIV raped a girl of 17 and got another aged 14 pregnant ? after winning permission to stay in Britain by claiming he was GAY. Sex beast Gabriel Vengesai, 45, lied that he faced persecution as a homosexual in his native Zimbabwe, a jury heard. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... grant.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIAL sex attacker Kirk Reid should have been nabbed more than FIVE YEARS before he was finally hauled off the streets, it emerged yesterday. But a string of clues were ignored until a second police team was called in to investigate — and solved the case of the Night Bus Beast after just FIVE DAYS. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -Reid.html

Author:	Saltmarket [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:58 pm ]
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Motorbike Assassin? They put contracts out on bikes now? This country is going to hell in a hand-basket!

Author:	wannabeeahack [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:08 pm ]
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Saltmarket wrote: Motorbike Assassin? They put contracts out on bikes now? This country is going to hell in a hand-basket! with the blessing of the EU

Author:	captain cab [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:09 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote: with the blessing of the EU How is that with the EU's blessing.......Turkey aren't in the EU are they? CC

Author:	wannabeeahack [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:25 pm ]
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Turkey's application to accede to the European Union (previously the European Communities) was made on 14 April 1987. Turkey has been an associate member of the European Union (EU) and its predecessors since 1963. After the ten founding members, Turkey was one of the first countries to become a member of the Council of Europe in 1949, and was also a founding member of the Organisation f The country has also been an associate member of the Western European Union since 1992, and is a part of the "Western Europe" branch of the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) at the United Nations. Turkey signed a Customs Union agreement with the EU in 1995 and was officially recognised as a candidate for full membership on 12 December 1999, at the Helsinki summit of the European Council. Negotiations were started on 3 October 2005, and the process, should it be in Turkey's favour, is likely to take at least a decade to complete. The membership bid has become a major controversy of the ongoing enlargement of the European Union.

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Author:	captain cab [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:28 pm ]
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So.....they are not full members then. Angela Merkel win ends Turkey's EU hopes Turkish hopes of joining the EU appeared to be all but over after Germany gave warning it was ready to join France and Italy in outright opposition to the country's membership. Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democrats (FDP) are both hostile to the accession of the overwhelmingly Muslim country of 71 million. The CDU is against the Turks joining for cultural reasons while the FDP leader, and probable new foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle has said the country's economy is too far below European standards to integrate comfortably with other members. With almost three million ethnic Turks living in Germany, many as citizens, Germany also fears there would be a flood of immigrants after Turkish accession. Merkel to establish conservative coalition Chancellor Angela Merkell has warned her Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call that Germany foreign policy was under review. An EU meeting to review the Turkish role in the unification of Cyprus in December will represent the first test of the policy. The Turkish reaction to the German election result has been open dismay. The country's liberal broadsheet Milliyet summed up the mood in Ankara's political circles. It said: "Turkey is the loser". The mass-market Aksam told Turks to be braced for a change in approach from Europe's biggest country. It said: "We should expect Merkel to sharpen her opposition to Turkey's membership." The German chancellor shifted the country's stance at the outset of her first government in 2005 to a more sceptical position and has said she would prefer if Turkey was offered a "privileged position" not membership. But the Social Democrats, her previous coalition partners, blocked any move to join the other big continental powers in rejecting Turkey. Turkey applied to join the forerunner of the EU as early as 1958 but bureaucratic hurdles have always kept it out. Nicholas Sarkozy, the French president, has already moved to torpedo Turkish accession to the bloc by stopping ratification efforts in five key areas. Brussels has imposed penalties on Turkey over its ban on flights and ships originating in the Greek-controlled part of Cyprus. Turkey's military still has up to 40,000 personnel in Cyprus, more than 30 years after it sent an expeditionary force to protect the Turkish population of the island. Cyprus became an EU member at the end of 2007 just after a reunification agreement collapsed and Brussels has since been embroiled in torturous negotiations to resolve the divide. Huseyin Ozgurgan, the foreign minister of northern Cyprus, has complained that the EU is a "negative player" in the reunification negotiations.

Author:	wannabeeahack [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:30 pm ]
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Im told the Pitcairn islands have special membership too, a well know european country that....

Author:	captain cab [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:33 pm ]
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Turkey are not EU members. and dont believe everything you read on wikipedia..... http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/ CC

Author:	captain cab [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:49 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote: remind me, who ISNT in the EU again? Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein.....and IMO we could do with getting rid of; Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania Hangers on who have f*ck all to offer. CC

Author:	wannabeeahack [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:59 pm ]
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captain cab wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: remind me, who ISNT in the EU again? Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein.....and IMO we could do with getting rid of; Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania Hangers on who have f*ck all to offer. CC Now your coming round to my way of thinking sadly it wont get rid of em though and they all look like "soakers" of the EU, migrant workers coming this way, EU money going thier way...

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Author:	wannabeeahack [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:33 pm ]
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Overseas countries and territories The overseas countries and territories are twenty one territories that have a special relationship with one of the member states of the EU: twelve with the United Kingdom, six with France, two with the Netherlands and one with Denmark.[4] They were invited to form association agreements with the EU and may opt-in to EU provisions on freedom of movement for workers (Article 186) and freedom of establishment (Article 183(5)). They are not subject to the EU's common external tariff (Article 184(1)) but may claim customs on goods imported from the EU on a non-discriminatory basis (Article 184(3) and (5)). They are not part of the EU, and EU law applies to them only insofar is necessary to implement the association agreements. [edit] British overseas territories Twelve overseas territories of the United Kingdom, namely: * Anguilla * Bermuda * British Antarctic Territory * British Indian Ocean Territory * British Virgin Islands * Cayman Islands * Falkland Islands * Montserrat * Pitcairn Islands * Saint Helena * South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands * Turks and Caicos Islands