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- Title: EU membership: An unfeasible plan for Turkey
- Author : Annemarie Wendicke
- Release Date : January 30, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 262 KB
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Hemerijck, the author of European Union, Turkey, and Islam, reasoned that Turkey must accept the Copenhagen Criterion in order to get a full membership. The EU has evolved into an union of values and objectives that is based on a democratic constitutional state, whose formal requirement is that church and state are autonomous and the state guarantees religious freedom and rights. In 2003 the European Commission criticized the current situation of inadequate religious rights (Hemerijck, 2004).
In contrast to Hemerijck, Mango argues that Turkey’s EU accession could strengthen democratic institutions in Turkey and its position within the counsels in the West. However, a rapid development of Turkey’s economy would require a large and continuing flow of foreign capital (Mango,1994). As a consequence, the EU would have to pay more money to Turkey than to the last ten member states that have been accepted to the EU and the net amount of money for each nation would change (Hökman, 2005).
In the same way, Hökman, the author of Economic Reform and Accession to the EU, states that although Turkey’s economy could benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI), especially the productivity in the manufacturing sector, the FDI inflows to Turkey have always been very low. He says that the reason for this is probably the situation in Turkey itself. The country faces two major problems: the fiscal problems, which have been there for a very long time, and the ensuing macroeconomic uncertainty. By the implementation of a fiscal adjustment, a lower inflation and macroeconomic stability should be achieved. Besides the macroeconomic uncertainty, Turkey is not as attractive for foreign investors as other countries due to its infrastructure-related weaknesses and its lack of computerization (Hökman, 2005).
With this in mind, Tiersky points out that the relationship with Cyprus is another sticking pointthe in order to become part of the EU. Turkey argues that the Cypriote government did not legitimately represent the ethnic Turkish minority, so Turkey opposed the entry of Cyprus in the EU. The Cyprus dispute leads to a drawback in the Customs Union because Turkey refused to open its ports to Cypriote planes. The member states of the EU made it a condition for Turkey to find a solution for the problem with Cyprus (Tiersky, 2006). The logical conclusion is that Turkey is not yet ready to become a full member of the European Union.
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