Talk:Copenhagen criteria

Removed Sentence About Criticism of Accension of Romania and Bulgaria
Does not belong here but maybe in a separate page on criticisms of the European Union, does this exist? If there is a source or quote on these specific criticisms then re-add it directly from those sources. It certainly should not link to a page about begging... --Didanvwisgi (talk) 15:11, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

European Union Membership criteria
Maybe we should create a separate page for European Union Membership criteria? Alinor 10:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Geographic Criteria
AFAIK the Copenhagen criteria have absolutely nothing to do with *any* geographic criteria. As such that whole section seems to me to be falsely inserted in this article (not to mention that it contains horrible statements like the silly "Neither the EU nor the candidate countries have the power to change geographical reality," or the even more horrid "European (i.e. Christian)") This section needs to be excised entirely. Aris Katsaris 23:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hm, AFAIK the EU simply borrows its geographical criteria from the Council of Europe, which means that the maximal theoretical extension of these two international organizations runs along the Russia-China and Russia-Mongolia border, then along the southern border or Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkey. The Cape Verde Islands and Greenland can go either way (hypothetically). In response to your comment... feel free to improve! Only don't cull too drastically, just rephrase horrid statements instead. =J //Big Adamsky 11:39, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thing is that if the Copenhagen Criteria *don't* have anything to do with geographical criteria, then the whole section doesn't belong in the Copenhagen criteria article (Copenhagen Criteria are *not* a synonym for "membership criteria", they're only a subset thereof, AFAIK). I'll see where I can move the section to (probably Enlargement of the European Union, with some small reduction) and will see about rephrasing horrid statements also. Aris Katsaris 11:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Just a question, if Cyprus is geographically Asian but culturally European, what is to stop Australia and New Zealand becoming EU members (despite the absurdity of the notion)??? Soundabuser 03:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Remove geographical issue
Regardless of the merits of this wild theory that Armenia is more European than New Zealand or Israel, this is original research and should therefore not be included on Wikipedia. Support its deletion. Kransky 06:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

How to become Member in the EU?
I cannot find an article concerning that topic, but shouldn't it be included here?

So, basically it should depict the process from the application to full membership?! Containing the different fields, acquis and chapters and all that stuff. I don't know whether that should be part of this article, but in general I think this would help to understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.60.4.204 (talk) 07:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Some eejit had put "People from Leitrim" on the section about minorities in Ireland. Deleted! Added phrase about Irish Nationalists and Republicans in Northern Ireland to UK sentence. Remove if not applicable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.147.5 (talk) 02:19, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree. There should be a separate page for this and criticisms of the process using real sources... --Didanvwisgi (talk) 15:15, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

"Sanctions" against Austrian government in 2000
I corrected some factual mistakes in the sentence regarding the "sanctions" against the Austrian government in 2000. First, it was not "Jörg Haider's government", he wasn't a member (what was then his party was in the government). Second, these "sanctions" were not EU-sponsered, but imposed by the other 14 governments outside of the framework of the EU. A relatively good description can be found under Wolfgang Schüssel. Martg76 (talk) 17:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Geographic Criteria
Why do we have a geographic criteria section? The section basically is a bunh of OR based on theories on what is or is not Europe. Basically there are no geographic criteria, as any "European country" can join. The EU website states that "The sole material condition laid down by Article O of the TEU is that the applicant must be a 'European State'. There is no unequivocal interpretation of that criterion. It can be read equally well in geographical, cultural or political terms." European is the only criteria, be it geographic, cultural, or political. I suggest removing that section, just combining anything relevant with the section above. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 00:36, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Secret ballot
How seriously is the "secret ballot" criterion taken? The UK does not have a secret ballot in the strictest sense (since each voter's number is recorded against the ballot paper number), so presumably would be ineligible to join the EU after Brexit. Is this the sort of thing that would be overlooked? 2A02:C7F:1C0C:1700:B17D:CC1D:9F98:223B (talk) 22:46, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Map Caption/Legend Discrepancy
The map shown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Further_European_Union_Enlargement2.png) has Iceland shaded as if it is a candidate, yet it is not mentioned as a candidate in the caption below the picture (on the main page for which this is the talk page). I apologize if I'm posting this in the wrong place, but there doesn't seem to be a talk page for the image file itself. I don't have a source on Iceland so I didn't want to add it myself. Hopefully someone else has the knowledge/resources to resolve this discrepancy.