Would you be on board with THIS European Union? (Poll)

If Suriname aren't involved I don't want to know about it.

It is EUROPEAN Union not the fooking Eurovision.

Half of Africa would be in Morocco and Tunisia, half of Asia would be in Turkey and we would be told we had to take our share.

TimeUp are you kite flying or on a wind up?

I await the usual suspects coming on to lecture us abut helping less well off countries and spreading our liberal ideals. 🙄

The liberal ideals you and I enjoy in this state and in the current EU were hard won over centuries through the blood of millions.

All some want to do is throw it all away.

Our liberal ideas will not be protected and safeguarded by inviting backwards, misogynistic, loo las that want to resort to hacking the heads off people or running them over if they or their backwarPards views are insulted.

As it is our liberal values and freedoms have already been sacrficed somewhat to counter the threats from some.

Perhaps you want more Nice's, Berlin's, Stockholm's, Paris's, Manchester's, Cologne's ?

After having such a terrible time with our own native religion why are so many flutes in this country so gung ho to invite in an even more repressive religious presence?

Ah but you see the idea is not to help people in their own countries, it is to import them into Europe.

To save them they must come here, after all Europe and us Europeans owe them.

Sending money to the poor starving ones in Africa is so old school, besides it has a whift of church and colonialism about it.

Some people just don't have a concept of how it costs more to look after someone in Europe than it would in Africa, Middle East, etc

I bet if Ethiopian famine kicked off now, not beyond bounds of probability since they are way over populated in comparison to 1980s and they are always tension in area, the response from some would be to fly everyone out.

Beggaring Europe to save Africa or anywhere else is lunacy.

Oh and spreading liberal ideals is not equivalent to US and NATO mickie waving in their own interests.

Hard No to England coming back, Wales and Scotland can come back if they promise to be be good. We could do a treaty with Turkey, Algeria Morocco but if we let them join do we have to let Egypt and Israel, Lebon and all the others join?

The hypothetical is absurd. None of the three Muslim-majoirty states mentioned are pursuing EU membership and, even if they were, there is no reason at all why their admission should be linked to that of the UK, Iceland, Switzerland, etc; these are independent questions which in the real world are answered independently. Plus, the hypothetical postulates membership by Morocco, etc, while ignoring Muslim-majority Bosnia, and simply assuming membership for Muslim-majority Albania - both of those countries are pursuing EU membership. The salient issue with Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey is not that they are Muslim-majority; it is that they are situated largely or entirely outside the European continent.

EU needs reforming. Too much, '' you have to do this to be part of our club''

Free movement that's fine, but free to live and work anywhere for all the states, no, that should be based upon input, so yes bigger economies should have that right, but I think it ruins the smaller poorer nations, as everyone abandons ship as soon as they join the EU, They end up in Ireland, or Germany ect, Free movement for smaller nations, but not the right to live and work , their nations should prosper in EU, no need to abandon ship.

Who cares? It's about competition and the more countries you can get to form an alliance the stronger you become. Would you prefer they allied with Russia or China?

You can have an alliance without admitting them to the EU… look at NATO. turkey are there.

No one is going to be on board of that kind of change, well not most of the EU anyway. The Dutch, the Danish, even the French are extremely expansion-averse as regards the east, the Dutch at the moment have a problem with admitting an EU country (Croatia) into Schengen, let alone admitting any other countries into the union, even the candidates of long standing, with their “chapters”, forget it.

Any expansion is not going to happen for a long time, but I can foresee the alliances such as V4 and Med9 gaining more prominence within the EU, and France certainly wants to push closer ties with North Africa, however no one else is enamoured with that either. Germany on the other hand will now push for an ever closer union (toward federalisation), I think that might prove a very tricky ambition for them!

I think the EU is slowly devolving and changing, there are now too many interests pulling in all different directions and too many cooks, as we know, spoil the broth. Interesting times ahead, and you don’t even need to evoke North Africa into this story to make them so.

B-H is in a heap of internal political trouble at the moment, each of the three nations involved are pulling politics in a different direction, we are a long time from Dayton and the ghosts of the ‘90s have arisen again. Dayton seems to be seen as a political football and an optional element more than anything these days, the levers of power-sharing are seriously messed up now. It’s dangerous stuff and I don’t see B-H getting into EU as it is. (Although, ironically, that would be the best place for it as the numbers of its inhabitants are small enough and the first place a good amount of young people would end up in is on the building sites and in the hospitality establishments of Germany or Ireland. No young people = no one to fight nationalistic wars over territory with their ‘90s era shrapnels and stuff. Also, some places and politics are getting very islamised these days, so one more reason to admit it into EU and defuse things. However, with the way the European politics are going atm, there are also reasons not to, and I don’t think it will happen.)

Kosovo is also problematic, unfortunately things there haven’t completely played out yet. I can’t see them getting into EU either.

It’s not realistic to expect that expansion. The EU is becoming more inward-looking. Enough to be dealing with, exactly (and sadly).