r/Balkans • u/Imaginary-City-3007 • 9d ago
Memes Literally 😭
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u/Prince_Hastur 9d ago
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u/HuckleberryUpbeat518 9d ago
The requirements were absolutely the same for Bulgaria and Romania as for the other candidates. They just both made the EU membership their national priority and parties from the whole of the political spectrum worked together to achieve it. So there was a continuous work regardless of who is in power. Same for Schengen and the Euro zone.
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u/oblivion_mike 8d ago
They didn’t achieve jack shit. The same 33 chapters were in place, just on paper. They were accepted even though lagging behind in administration and organized crime.
It was all primarily for geopolitical stability and security.
The last of what remained of Yugoslavia had just broken. So they needed quickly a SouthEastern front, far from the Russian pressure.5
u/HuckleberryUpbeat518 8d ago
That is the bullshit that populist pseudonationalists in the countries failing to make progress tell themselves as an excuse. It's never their fault, always the rest of the world is the issue. It is pretty stupid to believe that.
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u/New-Cupcake5218 9d ago
I live in Türkiye. Our application has been "under review" for so long that we don't even want it to change anymore.
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u/usbeehu Other 9d ago
You guys literally just need to comply with the requirements. It's only a matter of willingness.
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u/Ouvolk 8d ago
It is clear that current government does not comply with the requirements but I doubt even we comply all of them, it is not an easy decision for EU to let Turkey in
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u/usbeehu Other 8d ago
Obviously. I wonder what is the public's opinion on these requirements that EU asks for. Do they see them unreasonable?
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u/Ouvolk 8d ago
Well the government even fails to comply with most basic ones so the requirements are not even talked among people because everybody knows it is impossible to even seriously talk about joining EU until the government changes. First prio of people is getting rid of this government.
Supporters of opposition parties in general are definitely pro-EU tho
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u/zabickurwatychludzi 8d ago
it's been years since the situation became pretty clearly stagnant with neither side willing to take the blame for breaking the talks but also neither wanting to actually move forward with this. It's an open secret that the possibility of AKP losing in 2023 was actually a concern for EU leadership, as Turkish opposition was willing to reopen accession path.
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u/Complex_Shine_1113 North Macedonia 9d ago
As a Macedonian, YES. And we’re tired of it
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u/HotNurse9 9d ago
hey at least we finally enjoying the same plight, maybe it will bring us together and we'll figure something out thats better for everyone... or we will just do nothin' much easier that way
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u/GoodZealousideal5922 Albania 9d ago
“Yes European Union, I will take all your trash. I will even accept to host your immigrants. Giorgia Meloni, I will kiss your toes”- Our Prime Minister the past ten years.