EU enlargement is a process still going on and it means that the countries which belong to it should becoma more united. The reason for integrating new states into the EU, remains the same as those in which the EU was founded: to guarantee peace and prosperity on the European countinent, and to promote respect of human rights.
In 1993, the Copenhager European Concil defined the membership criteria, which require the candidate country to created the conditions for its integrations, and to take decisions on the conduct of yhe negotiations, so, the aspects which are kept into consideretion are: cultural, political, economicol, social together with human aspects.
It was in 1999 that an EU summit accepted Turkey as a candidate and, if Tirkey satisfied "Copenhager Criteria", it would be fix a date for opening negotiations.
Turkey is completly different from other European countries for what concern religion, political system, the attitude to human rights, women and so on.
RELIGION PROBLEM:
In turkey, law embades religion, and it's a problem because in Europe law is divided from religion. People are afreid about Islam, because it's connected to power: there is not separetion between regular and secular power.
POLITICAL PROBLEM:
Tirkey is very big in respect to the other Member States, it constitutes a relevant problem because it's very populated, bacause the European Parliament is elected by all the citizen belonging to the Member States.
CULTURAL PROBLEM:
Turkey is not in Europe: only one-tenth of the country's land in Europe.
Turkey is divided into two areas:
Western area: it's a prosperose rich area
Ankara: it's a very poor area.
From the interpretetion of date carried out by the different groups in class, it appears that the klowledge about the EU is superficial.
A lot of the people interwied have very poor knowledge about the EU; this is an erroe because we live in one of the Member States, and we should be enteresteded in Europe.
People do not seem informwd about EU, probably because they do not read newspapers or are not interested.
English is considered the most siutable language to adopt on an international level.
One of the major innovations established by the EU is the creation of the European Citisenship: every citizen who is from national of a Member states, is olso a citizen of the Union, and European Citisrnship established some rigths:
the right to vote
the right to petition the European Parliament
the right to protection of a Member States
In my opinio, from its origin, Eu has developped a lo: at the beginning it was formed by just six members, now, there are 25, so I'm in favour of Turkey'entry, because enlargement is one of the most important opportunities for the EU; A further enlargement is a process without precedent and the date shows an increase of 345 of the area.
In order to increase the people'knowledge about the EU, the European Union should be a school subject or it should be people'interes to get informed about the EU.