Of all the inane, self-serving, deals German Chancellor Angela Merkel made with Turkey, visa-free travel for 80 million Islamic Turks tops the list.
“This is all a nightmare,” said one diplomat charged with making the deal work.
Nightmares aside, Brussels Prepares Legal Groundwork on Visa-Free Travel for Turks.
Brussels will this week propose visa-free travel to Europe for 80m Turks but says Ankara still needs to meet several politically explosive reform conditions within weeks, including overhauling its terrorism laws and party funding rules.
The enhanced travel rights were Turkey’s main windfall from a landmark EU deal in March, in which Ankara helped dramatically cut migrant flows to Europe by agreeing to take back all migrants arriving on the Greek islands.
On Wednesday the European Commission will legally recommend Turks should be granted short-term visa-free travel to the Schengen area. But it will point out that up to nine of the 72 eligibility conditions required of Turkey remain incomplete, according to people familiar with the proposal.
The stage is now set for a stand-off before the June visa deadline, with far-reaching consequences for the migration crisis, domestic politics across Europe and Turkey’s long-term relations with the bloc. Decisions on visa rights for Ukraine, Georgia and Kosovo are set to be taken at the same time.
“This is all a nightmare,” said one diplomat involved in talks. Another European diplomat described the Turkey-EU deal as carrying “the seeds of its own destruction”.
It is a gamble some senior EU officials fear “is a big mistake” and will backfire. “This will be the perfect get-out for the Dutch, French and Germans, who are facing major domestic problems and suffering from buyer’s remorse since the Turkey deal,” the official said. “And the European Parliament will just not accept a political fudge, the Turks won’t be able to ram it through.”
Appropriate Terms (in Order of Occurrence)
- Windfall to Turkey
- Short-Term
- Stage Set for Standoff
- Nightmare
- Seeds of its Own Destruction
- Big Mistake
- Backfire
- Political Fudge
Political fudge, seeds of its own destruction, and nightmare are my three favorite descriptions.
A strong argument can be made for “short-term” given the massive long-term problems should this deal actually go through.
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Mike “Mish” Shedlock
The dumbest initiative you can think off. That’s on the top of failed refugee policy. And they can always go one step further and let 45M Ukrainians roam free in EU. That will be the end of open borders within EU.
Turks will flock to the EU.
AND, millions upon millions of “newly minted Turks” from every Arab country, etc.
White Suicide.
Prosperous times are here in deed!!!
“a turkey in every pot and an immigrant in every garage.”
The following cultural diversity quote is from Wikipedia’s Sustainable development>Culture>Cultural Policy page. The idea of Cultural Policy was created by Dr. Kevin V. Mulcahy. Generally, this involves fostering processes, legal classifications and institutions which promote cultural diversity and accessibility, as well as enhancing and promulgating the artistic, ethnic, sociolinguistic, literary and other expressions of all people – especially those of indigenous or broadly representative cultural heritage.
I guess we can count Merkel as being “in” on the Sustainable development’s Cultural diversity agenda.
The Wikipedia’s Sustainable development sections on” Income” and “Architecture” are even more disturbing than this cultural diversity policy Bull $hit. .
Sounds more like they want to build a museum for culture and tradition.
The janitor will show you the specimens pinned to their boards or floating in formaldehyde .
If I was Turkey, I would play like Cuba and issue (one-way) traveling papers and provide transportation and maybe even some expenses to any and every Kurd in Turkey, and any who cross over from Syria and Iraq. Talk about killing two birds with one stone.
I think we go one better than that: Automatic Turkish citizenship to every refugee deported from Greece who accepts the one-way ticket to the EU destination of their choice.
Vicious, Violent, Horrendous War is coming to Europe. I hope the White Men of Europe are buying guns and ammunition.
Where in Europe can white men buy guns besides Switzerland and maybe Lichtenstein?
The cowardly European fools will never accept Kurds. Kurds have backbone and are courageous. They might even get jobs and vote conservative. Can’t have any of that.
Are you listening, Grexit voters?
1/2 are listening to reason and logic.
The other 1/2 are stuck on the gubberment tit.
The invaders still get their free shit.
Somehow, Neville Chamberlain will sway them into staying with the EU.
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. i just hope we don’t have to save them for a 3rd time.
Obunghole has budgeted almost $18,000 for every illegal minor for this year. A massive magnet to attract the filth like we saw outside a Trump rally Friday, mooning and flipping off the people driving into the stadium and cursing at them in good old el Espanol. And what are all the anti-Trump RINO’s doing about that?
If this goes through, this will be the end of the EU and probably the islamification of Europe.
Hardly the end of the EU. Sounds more like an expanded Islamic EU ruled by Germany. It will be like Germany ruling the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine/Ottoman Empire. This also seems to be part of the deliberate Islamization of Europe by Merkel/Germany, for whatever reasons.
Like all agreements between nation-states, what is revealed to the public is typically only the tip of the iceberg. I have to wonder what else is in the agreement that is not known to the public. Perhaps Germany has agreed to crushing the Kurdish rebellion or even bringing NATO force into Syria (as in bombing Serbia, Kosovo, Libya).
There has to be more to this deal. Otherwise it makes no sense, as the EU could easily block the refugee flow without this. Sounds to me like Turkey is the ticket for bringing Ukraine, Kosovo, and Georgia into the EU. Kind of like with the Patriot Act in the USA, where 9-11 was the Trojan Horse for creating the NSA police state structure of domestic surveillance. Merkel is not a dumb politician, and should not be underestimated. No doubt she is moving forward an agenda below surface view, and an expanded EU to surround and crush Russia seems part of what Brussels is considering. I would suspect Victoria Nuland and the neo-Con USA agenda are operating below the surface.
joelg5 – “There has to be more to this deal.” I agree with you that something else is going on that we are not privy to. These guys are not destroying Europe for nothing; something very big and game-changing is afoot. We will know it long after the fact.
I also agree that the EU could have stopped the refugees dead in their tracks a long time ago if they had wanted to. The people who are saying they couldn’t are deluding themselves. I mean, they’ve been inviting and enticing them in. The major media have been withholding stories in order to keep the EU public uninformed. When anyone complained, they were called racists and bigots.
As Shakespeare said, “Something wicked this way comes.” What are they up to? None of these politicians are dumb or stupid. They have a plan. The hope is that voters can stop them before they can carry it out. This is madness.
It is a deliberate move to enslave and exterminate the White Race. Been in planning for 200 years but most of you have no idea.
‘Short term’ has to be the best:
Customs Official at border ‘ You don’t need a visa to cross into EU as long as you haven’t been here longer than 3 months. How long have you been in EU ?’
Migrant ‘ Sir , I just crossed the border a minute ago, over there ‘ .
Customs Official ‘ Well you realize that allowing you to enter is temporary , next week I might not let you ‘
Migrant ‘ Yes sir , I will tell everyone I know ‘
Brexit looks delicious.
These insane policies will eventually give rise to another Hitler.
Probably, except he or she will likely be a Turk.
Hitler actually warned about this. He stated clearly that the war (World War 2) was to determine if the White Race would survive.
Not that Hitler ever made sense but why was he killing millions of whites if he was so concerned? Hitler also had Muslim units recruited from the Balkans and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was an advisor and made a general (honorary?) in the Waffen SS. Merkel is communist trash and is entirely in it for herself. Germans have obviously become losers and huge fools. Their past has caused them to cashier their future
The official Brexit scoreboard:
https://ig.ft.com/sites/brexit-polling/
O/T (mostly):
Seymour Hersh implicates Hillary in transfer of Sarin gas from Libya to Syria. Via ZeroHedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-01/seymour-hersh-says-hillary-approved-sending-libyas-sarin-syrian-rebels
As some one said, in a democracy, people get what they deserved good and hard! Well done Merkel and the Germans!
Merkel (if you do due diligence, is not German)
It was HL Mencken.
“The people get what they deserve and they deserve to get it good and hard!”
Islamic Turks Mish? So you would be ok if they were Christian Turks?
There goes Germany
If you asked the typical voter would they rather go along with this scheme or nuke Turkey – most of them would vote to nuke Turkey. With their historic genocide against the Armenians along with their current support for ISIS there are plenty of reasons to annihilate Turkey. Let’s get started.
When will the Europeans realize that high levels of their government have been subverted. The process of demoralizing the society is nearly complete. Now starts the destabilization process leading to civil war.
When are the Europeans going to realize that high positions in their government have been subverted? The process of demoralizing the society is well underway. The “migrant crises” is part of the next process of destabilization that will lead to civil war. The “plan” is well documented.
For a more in depth understanding of Marxist subversion, I strongly recommend that one look up “Yuri Bezmenov” on YouTube and watch his interviews and lectures. Bezmenov was a high level KGB agent that defected some 30 years ago. His specialty was Marxist subversion of countries and societies.
Or here are links for two of his lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g
Nowadays the ones doing the subversion is the USA and the EU itself. putin did his best to wake up the europeans to no avail, thus he said “you cannot save people who iinsist on drowning themselves”
Sounds familiar.
Turdeau has done the same with Mexico here in Canada
Trump builds a wall. Turdeau builds an escalator.
Self immolation for the nation!!!!
Somebody has to say it, and it falls upon me.
Extermination of the White Race. Planned 200 years ago.
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Bankers caused the immigration crisis by printing food inflation. First hungry people marched on the oil fields, hoping to trade oil for food. When that didn’t work, they fled to Europe in search of food.
Food inflation wars continue to rage across the oil patch, courtesy of bank QE.
Beeb says visa free will be passed
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36188558