The US is scared of the EU

Writing in the daily newspaper I Kathimerini Stavros Lygeros asks why so many people seem surprised that US President Barack Obama has called for Turkey to be allowed to join the EU: "From the very beginning the US lobbied for Turkey's EU membership, not because it loves the Turks but because such a development would serve its main interests, which are based on strategic considerations. The US has never looked kindly on European integration because it sees the EU as a rival to its own leading role. … The US quite rightly believes that Turkey will undermine Europe's attempts to unify, particularly at a political level. The growing ego of Ankara and the way it tries to haggle are not compatible with the common European parameters for a constructive compromise."

» full article (external link, Greek)
More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » EU Policy, » U.S., » Turkey
All available articles from » Stavros Lygeros

» To the complete press review of Tuesday, April 7, 2009