Commission decision taken last week
Brussels bringing Turkey into EU under the radar
Detailed
plans to extend the same rights to Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Croatia,
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Israel
The unelected European Commission has
repealed the 1980 Ankara Accord between what was then the EEC and
Turkey, and replaced it with a major change to the rights of Turkish
citizens in the EU. The proposal was presented to a working group (we
know not who) eleven days ago on March 30th, and approved by that same
anonymous gathering. It specifically adds that ‘A first package with
similar proposals in respect of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Croatia, the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Israel was adopted by the
Council in October 2010′ and that this too will be updated to bring it
into line with the Turkish proposals.
I was certainly not aware of the October
2010 ‘package’, and I doubt very much if even the eurosceptic wing of
the Conservative Party is up to speed with the fact that this Turkish
grant of rights is about to pass quietly into law – as so many of these
lunatic Commission decisions have a tendency to do. But the clauses in
relation to non-eurozone members like the UK (already sinking under the
weight of unrestricted migration) are truly mind-boggling. For example:
(my emphasis)
‘this [Turkish accord] will facilitate
the application of these provisions by Member States’ social security
institutions. This Decision shall apply:
(a) to Turkish workers who are or have been legally employed in the territory of a
Member State and who are or have been subject to the legislation of one or more
Member States, and their survivors;
(b) to the members of the family of workers referred to in point (a) provided that these
family members are or have been legally resident with the worker concerned while
the worker is employed in a Member State;
This gives Home Secretary Theresa
May-and-very-probably-will something of a problem: despite her
protestations of ‘cracking down’ on migrant numbers and the rights of
their dependents, as a Member State Britain will have to obey the
diktat. Does Theresa even know about it, I ask?
I do not employ the phrase ‘ lunatic
Commission decisions’ above lightly. Any unelected and yet sovereign
body happy to take on the welfare needs of these workers at a time of
euro meltdown must be deranged at least. To enumerate the idiocy
involved here:
1. Turkey’s economy under the closet Islamist Recep Erdogan is about to go bang. Enter millions of jobless Turks stage left.
2. Turkey has already threatened to annex Cyprus…both parts of which represent an existing EU member.
3. Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia are all recently destablised States with growing Islamist power in their politics.
4. Um, none of them – including Israel – are in Europe. Small point, but worth bringing up I feel.
5. All four of the above States are anti-Israel in the most bellicose manner.
6. Germany has just passed a law denying these very rights
to unemployed ClubMed citizens. How are they now going to feel in the
light of this new law? How is Gunter Grass going to feel, having just
been banned by the Israeli Government?
7. The anti-Islamist security ramifications
of the new law would be horrendous. Yet Theresa May tells us that GCHQ
must listen to and read all our online and telcom communications
even without such a potty increase in the risks involved. (Only media
outrage stopped Camerlot from slipping this little number through the
Lobby Fodder).
Zero alignment with the map of Europe, the
financial chaos of the eurozone, the political powder keg that is the
middle east, and real life in the 3D Universe lies – as ever – behind
the adoption of this proposal. It is time the Camerlot Establishment
stopped complacently referring to unthinking EU madness as “an
imponderable”. It is time William Hague started looking for a way out
come what may. And that includes Theresa May.
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