Ataka leader Siderov shown at a rally in Plovdiv Wednesday night. Photo by BGNES
Several right-wing European parties have called for a European-wide referendum against Turkey's membership in the European Union (EU).
"Europe will be heading along a dramatic wrong path if non-European countries are acceded into the European Union", Heinz-Christian Strache, head of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), told journalists in Vienna after talks with colleague in Belgium, Slovakia, Italy, Denmark, and Sweden.
"This would be the end of the European Union. It would be the beginning of a Euro-Asian-African union which stands completely in opposition to the European peace project and therefore should not be permitted to happen," the Austrian right-wing politician declared.
In Bulgaria, the issue has turned into the apple of discord for the allies of the ruling party. The informal ruling coalition between the center-right GERB party and the nationalists from Ataka suffered earlier this week serious cracks as the latter party declared itself strongly against Turkey's EU membership.
After on Wednesday the Bulgarian Parliament – with the votes of the ruling party GERB and the opposition ethnic Turkish party DPS (Movement for Rights and Freedoms) – decided not to hold a vote on whether to schedule a referendum on Turkey's EU membership, the Ataka leader Volen Siderov threatened to back out his party's support for the Borisov Cabinet.http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=121432
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