Less pressure with Russia out of the game of politics for a while?
DBWI: European Union Map
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Perhaps there was lesser Turkish emigrants in West Germany and Belgium. One has to Remember that Turkey's meeting requirements was the equivalent of wearing a gut belt at a formal ceremony: it did look alright on the moment, but at some point it had to come off.
What Turkey did was essentially cut taxes to near zero for a few years, invest in so-called "desert cathedrals" with no real economic potential, and cut some education expenditure while it was at it; and what West Germany and Belgium did was to turn a blind Eye on the sustainability of the situation. Nowadays Turkey is pretty much a black hole of funding to cover that damage, so it's no wonder Spain and France want them downgraded, and that Ötizuglu is lamenting that joining the Eurozone was a mistake.
It's a member of the Union that is shown in Grey. You know the UK and USSR had to go at it alone after the US sat out of the "Great War". Makes sense that they would form a bloc that had to oppose the German and puppet France one. You forgot those brave Swiss that defended the mountain passes that caused the war to drag on and both sides came to a peace agreement?
Ooc: what? Not only does that contradict the thread, where France is the leading power in the EU instead of Germany, but op asked to keep PODs and butterflies post 45