So what you mean to say is that the EU politicians will show backbone, respect their principles and reject a potential of new power over a new state in order to

So what you mean to say is that the EU politicians will show backbone, respect their principles and reject a potential of new power over a new state in order to safeguard European law ? That'll be a first. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitution_for_Europe#Post-rejection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitut... These are the people that have not even mentioned the situation in Turkey. Hell, they haven't even stopped treaty negotiations about Turkey joining the EU.