To make sure that Turkey's controversial EU claims will never impose Ankara's entry inside the EU as full member, the ChristianSocial party CSU in Germany, (headed by Seehofer, successor of Edmund Stoiber, coalition partner of the CDU/CSU of Chancelor Merkel in the 2009 EU Elections), wants a Referendum.

But Socialists (who present 3 Turkish candidates to the polls !), and the Turkish Lobby in general, don't want even to hear about such a "Referendum", and, through ambiguous procedural obstacles, try to hinder, for the 1st time, the CSU to have any MEP at all in EU Parliament, ...even if it wins the EU Election in its Bavarian stronghold !

CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, in a Report on "Democracy in Europe", adopted on 2008 in Strasbourg, has already criticized as "excessive" the imposal of the obligation (as now in Germany) to gather more than 5% Nationwide in order to have any MP elected, regardless of the votes results in Regional/Local Constituencies, where People may give a relative Majority to certain candidates with 35%, 45%¨or 51%...

A similar obstacle exists only in ... Turkey, (with a 10% nation-wide threshhold imposed), and has been strongly denounced by CoE's Parliamentary Assembly as contrary to democratic standards.

 

"I am very firmly convinced that, for Political, Cultural, Financial and Geographic reasons, EU cannot integrate Turkey", stressed EU Parliament's President, German EuroMP Hans Gert Poettering, Head of the CDU/CSU coalition (of Chancelor Merkel)'s candidate MEPs in the 2009 EU Elections.


"That's why we want a Partnership, and to cooperate with Turkey on an Economic and political field, but without Membership in the EU", he added.

However, Poettering believes that this could be achieved by a Parliamentarian method, while his coalition partners, the CSU (ChristianSocial party)'s Seehofer (successor of Edmund Stoiber), wants a "Referendum", in order to be sure that Turkey will not enter into the EU.

But Socialists (who present 3 Turkish candidates to the polls !),and the Turkish lobby in general, don't want even to hear about such a "Referendum", and, through ambiguous procedural obstacles, try to hinder, for the 1st time, the CSU to have any MEP at all in EU Parliament, ...even if it wins the EU Election in its Bavarian stronghold !

CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, in a Report on "Democracy in Europe", adopted on 2008 in Strasbourg, has already criticized as "excessive" and contrary to democratic standards, the imposal of the obligation (as it is the case now in Germany) to gather more than 5% Nationwide in order to have any MP elected, regardless of the votes results in Regional/Local Constituencies, where People may give a relative Majority to certain candidates with 35%, 45%¨or 51%...

A similar obstacle exists only in ... Turkey, (with a 10% nation-wide threshhold imposed), and has been strongly denounced by CoE's Parliamentary Assembly.

It seems that, according to whether the new EU Parliament, which will result from June 2009 EU Elections, will be mainly guided by a ChristianDemocrat (EPP) - Socialist compromise as usual, or by a Christian-Democart and Liberals (etc) coalition, the results might be differend.

And rather unexpected, differend from usual, ordinary habits, particularly in view of the main issues...

[Socialist party in Germany prefers Turkish candidate who finds "EU not perfect", instead of experienced MEPs...]

Socialist party in Germany prefers Turkish candidate who finds "EU not perfect", instead of experienced MEPs...


The SPD party in Germany decided to appoint a Turkish candidate who finds that the "EU is not perfect" for his taste, and even gave him a Higher place, above many experienced German MEPs, who were comparatively Downgraded, placed only in the following, Lower-chance places..

Mr. Ismael Ertug (pictured), an employee handling money for the coffers of local Sickness Funds ("Krankenkassen"), was preferred by SPD's Bureaucracy to many Experienced German MEPs, including Norbert Glante (an Electro-mechanics' Technician, EU Parliament's Rapporteur on High-Tech programs such as "Galileo" Satellite Navigation Systems, etc), Mrs Constance Krehl (a Computer's Expert, long-time President of EU Parliament's JPD with - Russia), Erika Mann (a Professor, Chairwoman of EU Internet Assoc., and EU Parliament's Rapporteur on  relations with USA, etc), Ulrich Stockman (an Architect and Cristian Theologist, experienced EU Parliament's representative for Latin American countries and Elections' observations at key-areas such as Kongo, Palestine, etc), as well as Dr. Holger Poppenhäger, (Director of Legal service, President of Associations for Poland, Children, Students, etc, and regional SPD Leader), Young Agronomy Expert Sylvia Radtke, Sales' Manager and EUREGIO vice-President Jürgen Cosse, Regional Officers on EU affairs Gabi Rolland and Maike Rohwer, Young Christoph Doller from Nordrhein-Westfalen, or Ulrike Foraci, (a Bi-national Family Socio-Political expert, Director of Association for Immigrants, experienced in "Integration" policy), etc., (pictured below Mr. Ismael Ertug)..



Mr Ismael Ertug says he wants mainly "Coexistence in Diversity", "free Movement" and intermixing of people, ("not only in the Physical sense" as he adds), for "all people, everywhere on the Continent".

=> That leaves more than 95¨% of Turkey out ! ...
Is Mr Ertug .."anti-Turkish" (as his compatriots usually claim against anyone who dares criticise Ankara's controversial EU bid ?

By the way, Mr. Ertug's "Continental" dada, also leaves out ...Great Britain, Ireland, France's Corsica island, Italy's Sardenia island, Greece's numerous Aegean Islands, Spain and Portugal's Azore, Malta, Cyprus, etc., while it also excludes Iceland's EU candidacy...

SPD currently has 23 MEPs, and Mr. Ismael Ertug is placed 20th in the list.

But Polls predict a fall-down of SPD's votes, in favor of Christian-Democrats CDU-CSU, Liberals, Greens, the Left, the Right or various "Free Citizens" groups, etc.

Surprisingly, (and contrary to SPD's History), there is not even one (1 !) SPD' chosen candidate from any European Country ! 

Only 2 from Turkey  : Mr. Ismael Ertug (See above), and Mr. Hidir Karademir, (an employee on Local Social Aid to Immigarnts, member of a local Turkish Association)

What will German Citizens say on June, (and their EU collegues afterwards) ?...
Will a Turkish loby cover up and muzzle their voices ?

Franco-German leaders Sarkozy and Merkel launched the campain for June's EU Elections by stressing their common opposition to Turkey's demand to enter the EU :

"We must speak about Europe's borders. It' is just to tell that to the People, during this European Election Campain... Our common position is : a privileged partnership for Turkey, but not full accession"nanounced German Chancellor Angie Merkel.  "We must speak about Europe's borders. It' is just to tell that to the People, during this European Election Campain... Our common position is : a privileged partnership for Turkey, but not full accession", anounced German Chancellor Angie Merkel.

"A Europe without borders is a Europe without Will, without Identity, without Values", stressed the French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

See : http://www.cdu.de/portal2009/26423_26841.htm
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/05/10/01003-20090510ARTFIG00180-sarkozy-et-merkel-unis-pour-une-meme-europe-.php