According to Manfred Weber, the president of the European People's Party (EPP), Turkey's EU accession process must be closed once and for all.

After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's , the German leader of the European Parliament's center-right parties

the issue of Turkey's EU accession must be "set aside" once and for all, because it "inhibits rather than helps" the relationship between the community and the country that has been a candidate for membership since 1999.

"The EU remains open to partnership, as Turkey is a direct neighbor and there are many common challenges. However, he also has expectations: the confirmed head of state must strive to unite society and modernize the country, and cooperate with the EU in creating peace between Russia and Ukraine, in migration policy, and in settling the situation in Cyprus," the interview states . Above all, "Erdogan must immediately contribute to Sweden's NATO membership," declared the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) politician.

Jürgen Hardt , the leading foreign policy expert of the joint German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) faction of the CSU and its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said the next big "test" of the relationship between the EU and Turkey will be the re-elected president how Sweden decides on NATO accession and how it "behaves" at the NATO summit in Vilnius in July.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz congratulated Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a Twitter post after the announcement of the election results on Sunday, adding that Berlin wants to promote common causes with "new momentum".

Germany is home to the largest cross-border Turkish community of approximately three million. In the second round of the presidential election in Turkey on Sunday, roughly one in two of the one and a half million Turks in Germany who were eligible to vote voted. Recep Tayyip Erdogan won 67.4 percent of the votes, much better than in his homeland, where he got 52.14 percent. On Sunday evening, several German cities celebrated his victory with impromptu car parades.

Cem Özdemir , the Turks in Germany who support Erdogan are celebrating in such a way that they do not have to bear the consequences of their decision, in contrast to many of their compatriots in Turkey, for whom the stay in power of the politician who has led the country as prime minister since 2003 and as head of state since 2014 is "poverty and freedom means "without". Thanks to the election result, many people in Turkey "lost all hope", wrote a member of the German government of Turkish origin on Twitter.

And the crowds celebrating Erdogan on the streets of Germany indicate that the Turks in Germany reject "plural democracy" and that their integration into German society has "failed", explained the politician of the Greens. ” and Islamic religious “fundamentalism” gets even stronger around them.

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We know, but we will never get used to the fact that the consciousness of German superiority has not disappeared from them, only now it has been dressed in "democratic garb". The result of Sunday's Turkish election was met with considerable disappointment by German politics, but also by the German representative of the EU, the president of the group called the People's Party. Manfred Weber would immediately impose the penalty for the "wrong decision" of the Turks, rejecting the issue of Turkish EU accession, which has been on the agenda for more than two decades. Because Mr. Weber does not like that the Turks "made a bad choice".

The Germans would surely assign "super milestones" (although they don't say this in this case) to the Erdogans, forcing them to accept, for example, Sweden's application to join NATO (the second strongest force in NATO belongs to the Turks). After all, it is apparently a "recalcitrant" country, where the election result means "poverty and lack of freedom" - according to German politicians. The majority of Turks thought otherwise.

On the other hand, the Turkish Minister of Agriculture is absolutely right that the integration of Turks into German society is a "failure". Very slowly, but eventually he figured it out. In fact, you should also realize that it is not only the Turks, there are quite a few others, in whose case "wir schaffen das" was said with regret.  

If the Germans continue like this, they may eventually achieve that the integration of the Germans will be unsuccessful - into the Muslim majority.

Source: MTI

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