Comments on: Safeguarding Turkish Accession http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/transition-and-accession/safeguarding-turkish-accession/ European Opinion Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:29:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: DoDo http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/transition-and-accession/safeguarding-turkish-accession/#comment-6130 DoDo Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:22:12 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1009#comment-6130 I still do not think there ever will be a 'shortage of young workers' - and that if yes, older workers can fill in. (And if older workers really have less productivity, more older people will do it for less pay - reducing jobless benefit payouts in the process.) On the other hand, this permanent free moving clause is crap indeed. If anything, the language barrier will limit much excess Turkish immigration into the EU-25 above what already exists. Elsewhere: in a recent meeting of the two PMs, Spain's Zapatero agreed to reduce the seven-year free moving moratorium for Hungarians to two years (that is until 1 May 2006). I still do not think there ever will be a ’shortage of young workers’ - and that if yes, older workers can fill in. (And if older workers really have less productivity, more older people will do it for less pay - reducing jobless benefit payouts in the process.)

On the other hand, this permanent free moving clause is crap indeed. If anything, the language barrier will limit much excess Turkish immigration into the EU-25 above what already exists.

Elsewhere: in a recent meeting of the two PMs, Spain’s Zapatero agreed to reduce the seven-year free moving moratorium for Hungarians to two years (that is until 1 May 2006).

]]> By: Matt http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/transition-and-accession/safeguarding-turkish-accession/#comment-6129 Matt Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:41:30 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1009#comment-6129 Would not permanent safe-guards also largely gut the idea of european citizenship? To my mind that would be a horrible mistake. I hope it won't come to that. Perhaps it would even be better to not let Turkey in than to allow it to so warp what seems to my (foreign) eyes to be great progress, but I'd much rather people suck things up and treat the Turks like full human beings. Would not permanent safe-guards also largely gut the idea of european citizenship? To my mind that would be a horrible mistake. I hope it won’t come to that. Perhaps it would even be better to not let Turkey in than to allow it to so warp what seems to my (foreign) eyes to be great progress, but I’d much rather people suck things up and treat the Turks like full human beings.

]]> By: c http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/transition-and-accession/safeguarding-turkish-accession/#comment-6128 c Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:13:18 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1009#comment-6128 But the free movement of labour is one of the core reasons why the EU is a good thing. And if i read permanent i doubt that they are talking about seven years, which in my not so humble opinions was already wrong But the free movement of labour is one of the core reasons why the EU is a good thing. And if i read permanent i doubt that they are talking about seven years, which in my not so humble opinions was already wrong

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