Told you so....
EU: Stoiber's Remarks On 'Limits' To Europe Touch Sensitive Nerve
By Breffni O'Rourke
Remarks in Germany by conservative candidate for chancellor Edmund Stoiber, warning against what he sees as the excessive enlargement of the European Union, have touched a sensitive nerve. In particular, Stoiber, who is premier of Bavaria, opposes EU membership for Turkey. This has reopened the contentious debate about whether the EU is, in effect, a Christian club.
Prague, 21 May 2002 -- Bavarians are not known for mincing words. Their manner -- among one another, as with strangers -- is direct and often rather gruff. Certainly, Bavaria's state premier, Edmund Stoiber, has kept to this local tradition in remarks he made about the dangers he sees in expanding the European Union too far east.
Stoiber, a conservative candidate for chancellor in upcoming German elections, suggested openly in a speech in London last week that Turkey should not be allowed to become an EU member. Nor, he said, should North African countries. He said there must be a recognition that Europe as an entity has geographic limits. These limits, he said, do not extend to the Turkey-Iraq border.
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Fat chance Turkey will ever make it into Judeofascist Europe.....
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