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rfmcdonaldDouglas Muir has yet another post up at A Fistful of Euros, this one examining the question of who supports Croatia's membership application. Unsurprisingly, Croatia's major EU trading partners, other former Austro-Hungarian territories, countries with right-wing governments, and countries with strong Catholic political movements rank highly.
As Wikipedia's article on EU enlargement notes, Croatia's membership application is hampered by human-rights issues. As Wikipedia's article on Turkish accession observes, though, Croatia's problems are comparatively minor. Leaving aside the question of scale (the seventy million Turks outnumber Croatians by 16 to one), Croatia's military, for instance, hasn't been exercising a veto over Croatian political life for the past three-quarters of a century, while it remains open to question whether the current Turkish government is negotiating in good faith and actually implementing the legal changes it's been required to make as part of the pre-accession process.
Is it possible to make an argument for expanding the European Union into Turkey but leaving Croatia outside, given the current situations of Turkey and Croatia?
As Wikipedia's article on EU enlargement notes, Croatia's membership application is hampered by human-rights issues. As Wikipedia's article on Turkish accession observes, though, Croatia's problems are comparatively minor. Leaving aside the question of scale (the seventy million Turks outnumber Croatians by 16 to one), Croatia's military, for instance, hasn't been exercising a veto over Croatian political life for the past three-quarters of a century, while it remains open to question whether the current Turkish government is negotiating in good faith and actually implementing the legal changes it's been required to make as part of the pre-accession process.
Is it possible to make an argument for expanding the European Union into Turkey but leaving Croatia outside, given the current situations of Turkey and Croatia?
