Proud Europa
The talks regarding Turkey's accession into the European Union are a farce. Turkey will never be admitted to the EU, or rather it will never achieve full membership. The Europeans will propose all manner of options for second-class and at some date in the future some Turkish government might agree to that condescending indignity. Why won't Turkey be admitted? Because Turks are not white. Sure, the Europeans will cite economic and political reasons, but those will be but smoke and mirrors. Turkey was a stalwart ally of the West all through the Cold War, even as East Germany, Poland, and the former Czechoslovakia supplied men for the Communist war machine; today, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia are all full EU members. The former East Germany automatically rated all the Union's advantages as soon as it was folded into the Federal Republic. Okay, it could be argued that all the Eastern Bloc states were mere pawns to their Soviet masters, but what about the damn dirty neutrals like Austria and Ireland? While the Red Army crushed rebellions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and while Alexander Solzhenitsyn rotted in the Gulag, Eire and the Osterreich couldn't even be bother to breath a word of protest. Yet they are most welcome at the EU's banquet table while steadfast Turkey is left on the outside looking in. Yes, the Austrians are shrill xenophobes, but at least they are relatively honest about their xenophobia.

If you take a different view, I'd be happy to discuss it in the comments. In fact, I would be in your debt.

Meanwhile, the Croatians shouldn't have any further problems joining the Euroclub. Sure, during the Bosnian War their armies slaughtered Bosniak and Serb civilians by the boatload, but Croatia is a good Catholic, white country. Welcome aboard!