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EU expansion and Turkey | 53 comments (53 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Some critique of poll and interpretation (none / 0)

Any Idea why the French are so much more negative?

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by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 07:21:10 PM EST
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Re: Some critique of poll and interpretation (none / 0)

Hello ceebs, Not absolutely sure but I think it's something to do with fear of the "unknown" (la peur de l'inconnu), something embedded in the French psyche -- the idea that there might be a clash of civilisations here too?

by The3rdColumn on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 07:40:59 PM EST
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Re: Some critique of poll and interpretation (none / 0)

The membership of Turkey has been a campaign subject for quite some time in France ; the demagogue right wing, i.e. Sarkozy, has constantly spoken against it ; and the left wing, which should welcome it, is becoming anti European thanks to the ratification of the Lisbon treaty.

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2008 at 07:51:49 PM EST
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Re: Some critique of poll and interpretation (none / 0)

Hm, I think a lot of polls showing opposition to Turkey's accession extending well into the French left pre-date French ratification.

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by DoDo on Sat Feb 16th, 2008 at 06:37:09 AM EST
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Re: Some critique of poll and interpretation (none / 0)

Also, parts of the French left used nearly xenophobic arguments - the Polish plumber - in the referendum campaign.

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Feb 16th, 2008 at 07:53:48 AM EST
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Re: Some critique of poll and interpretation (none / 1)

And it is felt as a "knife in the back" from many of the intellectuals, as it was the only country who had an embassy with the Ottomans.

You add to that, that french was an alternative language for many and that the modern turkish is embedded with hundred of french words (though the spelling isn't similar)!

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sat Feb 16th, 2008 at 06:35:41 AM EST
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In addition (4.00 / 2)

we see Turkish membership pushed by Tony Blair and the Americans...

Note that the strongly pro-European Modem is also against Turkish membership on the grounds that it would be detrimental to deepening of the existing union.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Sat Feb 16th, 2008 at 06:36:01 AM EST
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