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« on: May 08, 2009, 12:05:54 AM » |
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French President Sarkozy has just launched a call for the EU to start talks with Turkey (and eventually Russia, etc), for the creation of a "common Economic and Security area", instead of the controversial Ankara's EU "accession" bid.
Treating Turkey very (some would say "too") well, he calls it "an important and friendly country", with which Europe should have closer, privileged relations, and share part of common interests, but with no vocation to enter the EU : Those who lie, and don't say the truth are not real friends. On the contrary, friends speak the truth honestly, he observes.
The move comes while both ECHR and EU Parliament have just denounced anew Turkey's inability and/or unwillingness to stop, instead of aggravating serious violations of Human Rights and democratic principles, revealing, once again, that Ankara is far away from EU values, both geographically and in substance. (Fex. jailings of hundreds of elected politicians, etc).
Europe's cohesion, union and identity should not be undermined by endless enlargements, so that it can develop a strong political will, Sarkozy added, as a matter of general principle.
The EU, together with Turkey and Russia, etc. would make a conglomerate of almost "800 millions" inhabitants, he notes : Precisely, as numerous as the already existing CoE, which celebrates this year its 60th Anniversary....
But if this means to use CoE (with the necessary changes) for that purpose, then what will happen with its current main mission focusing on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law (since the Warsaw 2005 Summit) ? Will it be progressively transferred to the EU, and to the ECJ at Luxembourg, (+ the EU Agency in Wienna), perhaps through Lisbon Treaty's "Fundamental Freedoms' Charter" ?
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