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Austrians will vote on Turkey's EU bid: chancellor

03 May 2011, 21:19 CET
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(VIENNA) - Austria will hold a national referendum on Turkey's accession to the European Union whatever the outcome of talks between Brussels and Ankara, Austria's chancellor said on Tuesday.

"Even in the case of a positive decision after the negotiations between the EU and Turkey, we will organise a referendum in Austria on this topic," chancellor Werner Faymann said in a statement after hosting Turkish President Abdullah Gul on the second day of a state visit.

For Turkey to join the 27-member European bloc, "fundamental values like freedom of opinion, human rights, democratic participation and freedom of the press must prevail unconditionally," the chancellor said.

Gul, for his part, underlined at a Austro-Turkish economic forum Tuesday the potential trade advantages his country's EU membership may hold for European states -- including for Austria whose commercial exchange with Turkey has tripled since 2001.

Turkey opened accession talks with the EU in 2005. However, out of the 35 policy chapters that candidate countries must negotiate, Turkey has opened talks on only 13.

Eight chapters remain frozen as a sanction to Turkey's refusal to open its ports to Greek Cypriot vessels under a trade pact with the EU, with France blocking several others in line with its vocal opposition to Turkey's accession.


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Austrians will hold vote.........

Posted by Demir Arabaci at 04 May 2011, 03:10 CET

Not a big deal.
By 2025, all these intermediate EU member cuntries will be seeking jobs in Turkey. That includes the french, dutch and the germans.
Just treat them exactly the same way as they are treatng us.
No more no less.

Austrians will hold vote.........

Posted by Stoyan Antonov at 09 May 2011, 17:20 CET
According to some media sources during Saddam Hussein's government the development of one of the biggest Iraqi oil fields - Curna - was negotiated with the Russian oil giant Lukoil (40 BLN USD). After the ousting of Saddam, the interim Iraqi government personally appointed by George Bush voided this contract (along with some others with French and Chinese oil companies). I do not know what was the legal grounds for Bush people to behave in such a way in Iraq - was that "power of the law" or by the "law of the power". Nowadays, the Bush family friend Rockefeller is in charge for the development of Curna, and "Royal Dutch Shell" is the first subcontractor and Turkish companies - the second subcontractor for this and other oil fields. "Shell" is a chief sponsor of some web site (as far as i remember "EURONEWS" or something like that, that advocate Turkish EU admission and presents Turkish as EU language???. When I contacted them with my opinion - that the Iraqi war is revival of the colonial system and East India Anglo Dutch Trading company- they never replied.
Turks are having now big access to Iraq, and if the nuclear power stations in EU close, Turkish importance will increase immensely,and in 10-15 years they will become the chief supplier of raw energy materials for EU.

Turkey2

Posted by Stoyan Antonov at 09 May 2011, 19:20 CET
according to some EU web site Turkey receives the highes financial help among those non-member states, and just recently Palestians called and received extra cash