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unfortunately we ve seen with bulgaria/romania cases that criterias are quite flexible and when there is a political will, criterias do really not matter.
without the NO at the constitution i am pretty sure, Turkey would have qualified quite fast.
there is no guaranty that criterias will be respected, past enlargements did not.
Turkey was never going to enter before 2013 because of the necessity to make adjustments to the budget. But Croatia was semi-slated for entry in 2009, which will now probably have to wait a bit longer. The internal political reasons for wanting to slow down Turkish entry would still have been there as well and these exist in enough countries to form a blocking minority. The no to the Constitution has probably made the matter more urgent...
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