Originally Posted by
Danielion
Well, Turkey was never at a state it was ready for such admission. I agree, though, the idea of Turkey in the EU is naive to even pretend it to be workable unless Turkey was different than it ever was. It's certainly not a story of Turkey being fully compatible and Euros being blind and bigoted.
Being loose with the law is dangerous. This is why we allowed Greece in the Euro-zone, and why they're fucked over to this day. We allowed Greece in the Euro-zone, because Germany itself didn't qualify to the Maastricht criteria (to ensure the countries forming a monetary union were economically alike before starting on the europroject together) with all disastrous consequences we have today.
Italy and Belgium neither qualified to those criteria btw, but the ECB turned a blind eye because the debt was decreasing at an aqequate rate anyway. Once in the club, however, the belt got loosened. ;)