Turkey and the Eu
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Pro and cons for Turkey becoming a member of the EUROPEAN UNION
With Europe facing a severe economic and political crisis, the continuing political integration of the European Union is more than ever the subject of several political science debates.
From the neo-realism point of view the largest current challenge is the European integration. Its basic assumption of the balance of power, according to international co-operation always differentiates between national security considerations and the understanding of sovereignty of the states involved, which is not applicable with the development of the EU.
Representatives of the neo-liberal institutionalism see the EU, therefore, as a strong indication that intergovernmental institutions can not only serve for security concerns of individual countries to maximize their relative profit. They can also develop a power structure independent of their members.
A possible accession of Turkey to the EU was always matter in Europe since the establishment of the EEC in the year 1957. No other candidate for an admission has ever caused so many controversial discussions. Despite the fact that every state agrees the process of the access negotiations there is still existing a big dispute wheter if the Turkish admission politically is desirable or not. Negotiations were started on October 3rd 2005, and the process, should it be in Turkey's favour, is likely to take at least a decade to complete. The membership bid has become a major controversy of the ongoing enlargement of the European Union. This statement describes the line I want to follow and the topics on which I have done my research for this paper very well:” The pros and cons of Turkey EU membership could span many pages. Against: Turkey is culturally very different; its per capita GNP is a quarter the EU average and Turkey could easily swallow up all the EU development funds; EU legislation would cause very much internal resentment - as many could
Pro and cons for Turkey becoming a member of the EUROPEAN UNION
With Europe facing a severe economic and political crisis, the continuing political integration of the European Union is more than ever the subject of several political science debates.
From the neo-realism point of view the largest current challenge is the European integration. Its basic assumption of the balance of power, according to international co-operation always differentiates between national security considerations and the understanding of sovereignty of the states involved, which is not applicable with the development of the EU.
Representatives of the neo-liberal institutionalism see the EU, therefore, as a strong indication that intergovernmental institutions can not only serve for security concerns of individual countries to maximize their relative profit. They can also develop a power structure independent of their members.
A possible accession of Turkey to the EU was always matter in Europe since the establishment of the EEC in the year 1957. No other candidate for an admission has ever caused so many controversial discussions. Despite the fact that every state agrees the process of the access negotiations there is still existing a big dispute wheter if the Turkish admission politically is desirable or not. Negotiations were started on October 3rd 2005, and the process, should it be in Turkey's favour, is likely to take at least a decade to complete. The membership bid has become a major controversy of the ongoing enlargement of the European Union. This statement describes the line I want to follow and the topics on which I have done my research for this paper very well:” The pros and cons of Turkey EU membership could span many pages. Against: Turkey is culturally very different; its per capita GNP is a quarter the EU average and Turkey could easily swallow up all the EU development funds; EU legislation would cause very much internal resentment - as many could