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"It is now clear that the European countries have, to quote the former European Commissioner Karel Van Miert’s words in a Flemish newspaper a few days ago, been behaving ‘like puppet states of the USA’ by effectively giving the green light to Turkey’s future accession to the European Union. Contrary to what some people are claiming, the fact is that the Turks have been given a date for final negotiations and in effect for accession in about 2007. The Copenhagen criteria are not prohibitive, and are actually not much harder for Turkey to comply with than, say, Romania or Bulgaria. Yet Turkey cannot be described as a European country – either culturally, geographically, historically, religiously, or politically. I therefore believe that it goes without saying that a European Union that wants to call itself democratic should organise binding referenda on such a far-reaching step in all European countries – a step with consequences that are barely calculable, a step that could cause a massive migratory flux of people to the West, a step that could even result in the complete implosion of the European Union. If the citizens of Europe are denied this opportunity for democratic consultation, I believe that in the event of an enlargement that includes Turkey, the European Union will lose all democratic legitimacy."@en1
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