Next Wave of EU Expansion

[GMantis]

Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia.

[GMantis]

I think Turkish membership in the EU would be of immediate and immense benefit to both democracy and secularism in Turkey and therefore have no qualms whatsoever with admitting it more or less as is. Same goes for corruption problems in Ukraine.

My own experience indicates that corruption actually increases after admission in the EU. And if Turkey is admitted unreformed, the anti-democratic forces will become entrenched and reforms will be far less likely.

Countries that wish to join the EU must address human rights.
In the last wave of entrants, some have still yet to implement human rights, this is not acceptable, you must meet the criteria before you join, simply saying, we will meet them if you let us join first, is not good enough.

Iceland is the only country that meets my criteria at the moment, but i'd like to see all Europeam countries joining, and having a system similar to the US.

Which countries admitted recently have yet to implement human rights?

[GMantis]

Croatia, Macedonia (f**k the Greeks and their incredibly silly language objection), Iceland and Norway (if they want it), and...that's about it.

It'll be a cold day in hell the day Serbia joins the EU.  Letting Russia Jr. poke its snout into the EU tent would be a catastrophe for the whole project.

(No, I am not a Slavophobe.  I mentioned Croatia, right?)

The Macedonians are Slavs as well.
And Serbia had rather good relations with the West when it was part of Yugoslavia and after the overthrow of Miloshevich, but they prefer to have good relations with countries which actually help them.

[GMantis]

I´d like to see all of the countries above in the European Union by 2050, including Norway, Switzerland and Belarus. Don´t know if Russia wants to join as well ...

No, I don't think so and the EU will probably never admitt them, unless perhaps Russia collapses to a more manageable size.