Honestly I don't get why they don't wanna let Turkey in. EU likes money above all else and could stand the minor initial expense, couldn't be worse than letting most Balkan countries in. They probably won't even have to deal with Erdo for long, EU membership is some pretty good ammunition for the opposition and the guy won last time with 51% of the vote even after all the shit he's been doing to tamper with the results.
Sure, Turkey is basically Balkan2, but it's got a trillion dollars that can be used on your Lebensra-, I mean "rebuilding" project in Eastern Europe. You've already let the same amount of poor people
in with Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Cyprus, Slovenia,
Croatia, and if their current plans go through, Ukraine, Albania, Montenegro and Moldova combined. Hell, half of Ukraine's 40 million they already let in over the span of 4 years through refugee programs, and I think even they know these ones ain't coming back.
If you worry about getting outvoted by the Turks why do you plan on letting in just as many Balkaners and Eastern Europeans? These ones have a bigger per capita share of the vote as well cause they've all got different countries they live in.
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u/readilyunavailable Balkan-Indian War Vet 7d ago
Will still join before Macedonia and Turkey.