Posted on 04/17/2016 3:31:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Not a single voter from the EU’s 28 member states — which have a total population of 508 million — has yet to vote in favor of Turkish membership.
But MEPs voted 375–133 to back the initiative by President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, who asked the Dutch EU Presidency to add Turkish to the bloc’s 24 official languages in order to boost attempts to reach a reunification agreement on the Mediterranean island.
The move, expected to add £25m to the EU’s annual budget, has infuriated critics who last night said it was further proof that Turkey’s accession to the EU was “all but guaranteed”. …
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Three so far. At least no primary candidate mention.
All I can say is that it is the fault of those who have not lost their faith in the GOP wing of the Uniparty that they have not investigated such rules. It perhaps is not too late for it to come out. This will, of course, necessitate the end of the current one-party system.
Nobody in the EU got to vote for any of the Commissioners, take note.
I don’t disagree that things in the USA have gone the direction of the EU, and faster in the past seven-and-a-half years. One-party rule will certainly help accelerate that.
That is why I’ve taken a rather fatalistic view of our future if someone blatantly anti GOPe doesn’t get the White House.
Who could take a look at our Congress, and not realize it doesn’t make one bit of difference who gets elected, if not a GOPe antagonist.
We prided ourselves on getting Roberts. Then we watched as he signed on for Obama’s Obamacare nonsense.
Folks, it’s over if we don’t muster the courage to take a chance and install someone who will do audacious things.
Advantaged students = American born english speakers who have parents that work.
MEPs voted 375–133 to back the initiative by President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, who asked the Dutch EU Presidency to add Turkish to the bloc's 24 official languages in order to boost attempts to reach a reunification agreement on the Mediterranean island.That's almost the first positive move made by the gov't of the Greek half of Cyprus since 1974.
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