EU Enlargement and the Perception of the Young - Classtests [5D]
Bruno's 4th Classtest
First of all I will try to provide a general vision about EU Enlargement.
The concept of Europe and the concept of European Union are very different.One refers to a geographycal point of view, the other refers to an istitution which was born after the Second World War.
As confirmed by the extract above the EU enlargement is the most significative development recorded during the history after the Second World War. It affected the life of all europeans.
The process is still going on.
In class we discussed about the future possible entry of Turkey in EU. We analysed some articles taken from the Economist, an English magazine. They dealt with the advantages and disavantages for EU to open talks for Turkey membership.
We understood that Turkey is more oriental than the europeans and it is different from the other members for four aspects: size, poverty, not all it is in Europe and finally the muslin religion.
As a matter of fact it is very large and it is poor: the main core of Turkey is still agricolture.
From its origin EU has developed a lot:at the beginning it was formed by six members, now there are 25.
The last enlargement was in 2004 with the entry of ten countries.
The relationship between EU and Turkey are not recent. In 1987 Turkey tried to enter EU but it failed because it is more oriental than europeans.
Afterwords only 1999 it became an official candidate pointing out that it should improve from the social, political, human rights etc. point of view.
After that Turkish parliament decided not to introduce adultery among crimes.
My personal opinion reflects the one of the majority: nowadays the usages and customs of Turkey do not coincide with the habits of the members of EU, in addition to that I think that the process of modernisation is still at the beginning.
In my group I obtained 60 answers to the four question in particular organizing them into 3 tables basied on and age.
From analysing results it appears that the knowledge of what people think about Turkey membership is rather low because rarely the subject is considered at school.
But it must also be should that there are people who know the question more than others since they read newspapers: on the countrary there are people who considers the fact absolutely irrilevant.
There is not a balance between negative answers and positive ones but most of the people interviewed don't accept a possible entry of Turkey in EU because of an economical, cultural, social diversity.
From the answers of the other groups I can understand that a lot of people are not prepared and they don't know the matter.
To me the subject is not particulary interested because we don't understand EU'meaning and we don't look for some information about this.
Today few people read the newspapers and this is real problem.
EU should take into account tha progresses make by Turkey but it does not still satisfy the Copenaghen criteria.