EU expansion
The European Commission is expected to tell Bulgaria and Romania they can join the EU next year as planned, but only if they fulfill 10 more conditions.
Like what? Democracy? Freedom of speech? The fight against corruption and organized crime? I’m not against in new European countries joining into EU, after all Bulgaria and Romania are European countries compare to the Middle Eastern Turkey that was to join. But here there are two issues. Have we put our democratic limits so low to accept especially Bulgaria next year? And if we have what stops Turkey to pretend that they got democracy as well, even though an undercover militaristic govern.
Somehow I feel that Bulgaria should make some more steps before EU comes out announcing that they will be acceptable as full members in EU after a year and they have this time to improve democracy and justice system.
Oddly enough the situation in EU seems to lead in dead lock where we all like to see it getting bigger with all the European countries joining in but the same time nobody can accept so easily how comfortably anybody can join and how much EU has bend its own principals.
May 19th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
At the end what IS the definition of EU? Is it something to be proud of? I don’t think so.. it’s just another name for a big mafia… you join if you contribute, NOT because youre demo.. demo…. what was that work I’m looking for?…. DemooooCratic! yeah that’s the word..