It is also my perception that as western european countries (France for me) want more and more surveillance and US-like "security" laws, former soviet block cou

It is also my perception that as western european countries (France for me) want more and more surveillance and US-like "security" laws, former soviet block countries are adding to our safeguard in the European parliament. The number of small level scary stuff I have seen discarded because the EU told us "seriously, you can't do that" is crazy (did you know that until recently, you could be detained by the police with no lawyer for several hours in France ? The EU forced us to fix that [1]). That is the one and only reason I have always been against turkish being in the EU, not religion or anything else like that like the medias like to claim. One has to wonder what will happen when the former soviet countries start to forget what oppression means too. [1] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garde_%C3%A0_vue_en_droit_fran%C3%A7ais#Moment_d.27intervention_de_l.27avocat http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garde_%C3%A0_vue_en_droit_fran%...