You miss-read what I wrote, its you that needs to do a fact check. I never commented on how many turks live in the european part of Turkey, which may be 15% (still hardly a majority and not relevant to my point). I simply stated the percentage of the population that is european (such as the greeks and armenians and other small ethnic groups that are european). Over 99% percent of its population is non-european asian/middle eastern turkic. The reason Turkey was driven out of the balkans is because the people of balkans didn't want to be ruled by a foreign power, they wanted there own government. The people of europe know the cultural differences and have every right to block entry if they so please. They see that if Turkey was emitted that a country with 95% of its land not even in europe would have the biggest voting block in the EU. The USA has the right to guard its southern border and regulate its own immigration and the people of the EU have the right to let in who they please.
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In the end, France remains Europe's indispensable nation. An unhappy France, a France without confidence in its economics, its foreign policy and its culture, drags Europe into the same uncertain state of not knowing how to interpret and change the 21st-century political-economic-social paradigms. And those gentlemen in England so snooty and superior as they watch France struggle and suffer should park their complacency. Whether under Sarkozy or, more probably, under an intelligent reinvented center left, France will be back. And not a moment too soon.
MacShane is Labour member of Parliament for Rotherham, a former minister for Europe and author of a biography of François Mitterrand.
MacShane is Labour member of Parliament for Rotherham, a former minister for Europe and author of a biography of Fran�ois Mitterrand.
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