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  • LibbEnglish
    51·
    8 days ago

    Turkey has asked to join the EU already. It was denied last time but something tells me next time they may be very welcome instead.
    (hint: Turkey has the second biggest army in NATO right after the USA and has the most active/quickly growing weapon/armament industry in Europe too)

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOP
      9·
      8 days ago

      I think a change of government would be required as Erdogan is only getting more authoritarian. I suspect this is partly because he knows the backlash is coming, but that may lead to even harsher crack downs on decent and he could go full Putin. The EU wouldn’t want that hot mess inside their borders.

      • LibbEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        in France, we have this saying ‘Nécesité fait loi’ which means you make do with what you have and to the best of your abilities. Also, my little finger is telling me quite a few EU countries would not mind a more authoritarian country entering the Council, a country that would then be used to tell France and Germany (and who knows, the warmly welcomed-back UK, one of these days) to go funk themselves. But I may be wrong.