" Is choosing for one over the other a question of social justice? "
Precisely, it is NOT. That's why I brought it up, because it seemed to me that's what you were doing. Perhaps I misread.
Restructuralization does mean also work and wages regulations, yes. Unfortunately enlargement, since it involved 10 poorer countries, will take its toll somewhere (just like Germany's unification took its toll on Western Germany) and before the standard of living in Eastern bloc approaches the level in the west. That doesn't mean it's fair or just, it just is here. That;s all.
Poland is in Europe, its right to be a part of the EU is not in question.
Turkey was the topic here, sorry, nobody who's been there would give laundry to be done by them.
Steve (as 41oo) wrote:Louise_R_Heller wrote:Poland is in Europe, its right to be a part of the EU is not in question.
Turkey was the topic here, sorry, nobody who's been there would give laundry to be done by them.
Have you been Louise?
Well, there are bad laundried all over the world - one of the reasons, why we do our washing ourselves :wink:
(Although I'm not sure, if this is a main issue of EU-politics.)
Yes I have been to Turkey.
I saw people with rags, I saw starving animals. I did not go visit their prisons but others of the
Austrian diplomatic corps did just that
AND they got sick every time they tried to report about those OR the torture implements they found there
TO say NOTHING OF THE PRISONERS
They were saying nothing being too terrified TO SPEAK.
OH and in case anybody wondered about bird flu spreading in Turkey:
The parents of the children who died from the bird flu said that....
.... their children were using...
...cut-off heads of chickens as toys.
Verbatim according to all news services.
Austria alone stood against these insane negotiations for Turkey to join the EU. I hope the rest of you will not live to regret it, because the fact is if they join then we're out, we don't want heads of dead chickens to be used as toys and we don't want to pull fingernails off any Kurds who happen to get to our prisons.
I rest my case.
I have once eaten a worm when i was a kid. I don't remember it, but my sister swears she saw me.
Though i repent, I believe Slovakia should be tossed out of EU immediately. I mean who wants a country that uses worms as baby food in the EU?!
