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EUParliament Drops Accession word for Turkey +Slams Casus Beli at Aegean Sea +Asks Arm Traffic Probe

Written by ACM
Thursday, 14 April 2016
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*Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- By adopting a series of Last Minute Amendments, with a Strong Majority, EU Parliament Droped twice the "Accession" Wording for Turkey, at key issues, and slamed Ankara's "Casus Beli Threats" against Greece at the Aegean Sea, in the context of its Votes for the Annual EU Report on Ankara. In addition, it supported the Continuity of the Republic of Cyprus in view of its Future Evolvement into a Federation.


MEPs prefered the Neutral Term "Negotiations", instead of "Accession", regarding both the "Framework" of EU - Turkey Talks, as well as their overall "Process", (which became "Negotiation Process", instead of "Accession Process", notoriously Controversial and Unpopular among EU Citizens, particularly as far as it concerns Ankara's EU aims.


Moreover, it's with an exceptionaly Strong Majority of about 479 against only 116 Votes, that EU Parliament expressed officialy its "Regrets" for the Fact that the Turkish Government hasn't yet withdrawn its "Casus Beli Threats (War Threats) against Greece" at the Aegean Sea, (f.ex. in case Athens tries to use the Rights given by the International Law of the Sea in order to start exploiting Mineral and/or Oil/Gas Natural Resources in its Exclusive Economic Zone.


Meanwhile, the Resolution which was adopted makes it crystal-clear, as far as the latest EU - Turkey Deal on Mass Migration is concerned, that Ankara's desiderata for "Free Visa" of 75 Millions Turkish Citizens into the EU, face a "Merit-Based" issue, which works "Only when Standards have been met".


Last, but not least, EU Parliament's Majority also Rejected an attempt by some "Green" MEPs to contest the Continuity of the State of the Republic of Cyprus, in case of a Political Solution on the issue of the ReUnification of the island in the foreseable Future, prefering to speak about an "Evolvement of the Republic of Cyprus" into a Federation, instead of mere "Formation" of such an entity, as those "Greens" had asked vainly.

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The adopted Resolution also "alls on Turkey to begin to withdraw its troops from
Cyprus and to transfer the sealed-off area of Famagusta to the UN", as well as to "grant Access" to the "Committee of MISSING Persons" to all areas, both "Military" and to "relevant Archives".


MEPs in addition endorsed in Plenary a series of strong appeals for Press Freedom respect, (particularly about freing many jailed Journalists of the opposition), as well as for Cease-Fire and Peace Talks at the South-East regions of Turkey, where the mainly Kurdish Minority's a.o. inhabitants face violence from the resumed conflict, hard restrictions, etc., many being obliged to become Displaced Persons recently. 


Moreover, EU Parliament  maintained, during Today's Votes, its crystal-clear demand for a "Thorpugh and Objective Investigation of Journalists' allegations regarding the Transport of Weapons" from Turkey "to Syria".


But, as famous RWF prize winner, (subsequently jailed, and only recently freed) Dissident Turkish Journlist Dundar had told "Eurofora", earlier in Strasbourg, the current Ankara Government, instead of denying Arms Traffic towards Terrorists gangs-held Syrian territories, on the contrary,  prohibits such queries by claiming that all such matters would be "State Secrets"..
 


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(Opinion).

 In Democracy, the forthcoming choices for EU's Top Jobs, as the New EU Parliament's President, new EU Commission's President (+ probably EU Council's President, EU Foreign Minister, etc) should be made according to EU Citizens' Votes in June 7, 2009 European Elections, and main EU Governments' strategic policies.

At the heart of the biggest EU Countries, in France and Germany, EU Citizens clearly voted for a renovated, non-technocratic but Political Europe based on Values, declared explicitly incompatible with Turkey's controversial EU bid.

This main choice was also supported in several other small or medium EU Countries, such as Austria (cf. promise of a Referendum), Spain (cf. EPP program's reservations vis a vis Enlargment), etc., while EPP Parties won also in Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, etc.

In other Countries, whenever Governing coalitions didn't make these choices or eluded them, continuing to let a Turkish lobby push for its entry into the EU, they paid a high price, and risked to damage Europe, by obliging EU Citizens to massively vote for euro-Sceptics whenever they were the only ones to offer a possibility to promise  real change and oppose Turkey's demand to enter into the EU :

It's for this obvious reason that British UKIP (IndDem) succeeded now (after many statements against Turkey's EU bid) to become Great Britain's 2nd Party, unexpectedly growing bigger even than the Governing Labour Party, as well as the Liberal party  ! Facts prove that it's not an isolated phenomenon : A similar development occured in the Netherlands, where Geert Wilders "Party for Freedom" (PVV) became also the 2nd biggest in the country, (after EPP), boosting the chances of a politician who had withdrawn in 2004 from an older party "because he didn't agree with their position on Turkey". And in several other EU Member Countries, even previously small parties which now focused on a struggle against Turkey's controversial demand to enter in the EU, won much more or even doubled the number of their MEPs (fex. Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, etc).

On the contrary, whenever Socialist and oher parties were explicitly or implicitly for Turkey's controversial EU bid, they obviously lost Citizens' votes and fell down to an unprecedented low.

In consequence, EU Citizens clearly revealed their main political choices, in one way or another : They voted to change for less Bureaucracy, but more Politics and Values in a Europe really open to EU Citizens, but without Turkey's controversial EU bid.

Recent political developments are obviously different from the old political landscape which existed in the Past of 1999-2004, when Socialists based on Turkish 1% vote governed undisputed not only in Germany, but also in the UK, Greece and elsewhere, France followed old policies decided when it had been divided by "cohabitation", before the 3 "NO" to EU  Referenda since May 2005, before Merkel, before Sarkozy, etc.... before the surprises of 7 June 2009 new EU Elections.

If the current candidates to the Top EU jobs promise and guarantee to respect People's democratic choices, OK.

Otherwise, Europe must find new candidates, really motivated and able to implement these democratic choices of the People.

The beginning of crucial, final Decisions are scheduled for the 1st EU Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg, in the middle of July, and they could be completed towards the October session, when Lisbon Treaty's fate will have been fixed.


See relevant Facts also at : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/2009electionsandturkey.html
http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/daulelections.html
http://www.eurofora.net/brief/brief/euroelectionresult.html

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