EU Enlargement and the Perception of the Young - Classtests [5D]
Longo Annamaria's 4th Classtest
The reason for integration of new state into the EU remains the same as those on which the EU was founded:guaranteeing peace and prosperity on the European CONTINENT.
The EU wants to promote respect of human rights,stable democracy,protection of minorities and besided it focusses on the interests of the common market.
In 1999 an EU summit in Helsinki accepted Turkey as a candidate,in 2004 Turkey satisfied the "Copenhagen criteria",theywould fix a date for opening negotiations.
If the decision in December were based on the Copenhagen criteria it would be hard to say no,in its economic,political and judicial refirms,Turkey is in many ways ahead of many other poor states for example Romania;but other factors that are negative come into play:its geography,its size;its poverty but the biggest issue of all is Islam because in Islam the two powers(secular and regular)aren't separated;in Europe the separation of powers started in 18 century to abolish the absolut monarchies.
As for Turkey's size:Turkey is very large so it would be biggest EU country;another problem is its poverty:Turkey is very poor;another question for which an answer is needed is its geografy,Turkey is generally divided into two areas:rich area and poor area.
Angela Merket offered Turkey a special associate status instead of full membership.
Trying to analyse the results of the answers it appears that Italian young people are not particularly interessed in EU.Only the 2,4% answered revealding the possession of detailed information but they were the older people.
From the analyis it appears that the knowledge about EU is rather superficialy probably becouse these subjects are not generally object of school study.