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[insan]

Southern Cyprus' EU Membership was a Mistake
Tuesday, March 22 2005 @ 11:49 PM Central Standard Time

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Coming to the forefront with the support he provided for Turkey's accession to the European Union (EU), Joost Lagendjik, co-chair of the joint Turkey-EU Parliamentary Commission, has said that without reaching a solution in Cyprus, the Greek side's membership to the Union was a mistake.


Following the April 24 referendum on the island for the EU bid, Lagendjik, who was blamed for not delivering his promises to the Turkish side, criticized the Turkish government for losing momentum in the reform process. He said that Turkish image of reforms have begun to be harmed of late and complained about the Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan's harsh mannerism at the December 17 summit. He said was not "clever" for Erdogan to scold EU officials at the summit and said, "These leaders will frequently come together after the negotiations have started. In this regard, his manner was not very reasonable." Lagendjik commented that the judgment that Erdogan is in essence no different that any former Turkish politicians was touched upon with his harsh attitude to the March 6 street protests and the police brutality against women in an illegal demonstration, and he noted that Erdogan's reaction was seen as a disappointment. Due to visit the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) with a five-member delegation to follow the presidential elections on April 8-9, Lagendjik will support the TRNC Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat as a presidential candidate. The Co-chair said he does not expect any serious developments regarding Cyprus before October 3 and emphasized that the EU did not deliver the promises that they had made after the Turkish side had said "yes" to the unification of the island in accordance with the Annan plan. He informed that the EU has pressured the Greek Cypriot leader Tasos Papadopulous to explain the points of their objections to the plan. He does not believe any problem will occur immediately following October 3, the start date for Turkey-EU membership negotiations.



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Erdogan should abandon his nerdily behaviours and be calm, rational when defending his point of view. In the past, Denktash nerdily behaviours caused huge damage on TC image.

[boulio]

let me guess Zaman daily?

[pantelis]

Greek side's membership to the Union was a mistake.

[boulio]

usually insan if it concerns EU business or news i would rather use the following site:

http://www.eubusiness.com/topics/Cyprus

[turkcyp]

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[garbitsch]

This sounds interesting actually. I put this in another form. The membership of small states like Malta and Cyprus to the EU brought more problems before the membership. I am not quite knowledged on this issue, but the reason why countries like Monaco, Liechtenstein and San Marino are out is because they attrack many inverstors who do not want to deal with all those EU regulations. Am I wrong? I am not saying that the EU membership of Cyprus was a disaster and a huge mistake, but at least the economic reasons were far less important than political for the desire of Greek Cypriots to be a member in EU.

[insan]

This sounds interesting actually. I put this in another form. The membership of small states like Malta and Cyprus to the EU brought more problems before the membership. I am not quite knowledged on this issue, but the reason why countries like Monaco, Liechtenstein and San Marino are out is because they attrack many inverstors who do not want to deal with all those EU regulations. Am I wrong? I am not saying that the EU membership of Cyprus was a disaster and a huge mistake, but at least the economic reasons were far less important than political for the desire of Greek Cypriots to be a member in EU.

You are missing the bigger picture which is based upon EU-Turkey-US-Greece-Cyprus axis in boundaries of new world conjuncture.

[boulio]

what insan i think is trying to say is that the equilibrium in eastern med has been disrupted without a solution in cyprus and cyprus entry into the EU.

[boulio]

Are you claiming that daily "zaman" has made up the words attributed to this bloke, boulio!
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there have been instances in the past that zaman was called on by EU officials as not actually saying those words or really munipulating them,like silvios berlesconi and gunther verhagun.

[garbitsch]

Do you guys know about the European Community's offer membership to Turkey in 1979 to keep the balance between Greece and Turkey in the Mediterranean against the Soviet threat? This offer was rejected by that periods "socialist" premier Ecevit, who saw no future in EC and claimed that the common market will make Europeans "common" and Turkey "the market". The Commissions report on Greece, Spain and Portugal was that that these countries did not fulfill the economic criteria, yet still these countries were taken into the Community to secure their newly born democracies and extend the area of influence of the socalled Capitalist West Europe. Anyone has an idea?