The EU (and the UN, for that matter) specializes in double standards (every country except Israel has a right to defend itself, for example). Here’s another one:
. . . to apologize for the Armenian massacre during World War I as a precondition for Turkey’s EU membership, as the European Parliament demanded last week, smacks of double standard. No similar demands have ever been made of other member countries before joining the EU.
Take the case of Austria, which objects to a full EU membership for Turkey:
Nobody demanded that Austria come clean about its Nazi past when it joined the EU. Until the present day, many Austrians prefer to see their country as Hitler’s first victim rather than as their fellow-countryman’s all-too-willing collaborator.
It turns out that the Austrians don’t come off well in regard to the 1915 Armenian massacres, either. The German Reich and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were allied with the Ottoman Empire and fully aware of Turkey’s actions against the Armenian minority. But they didn’t try to stop it.
Austrian moral superiority? Give me a break.
