"Turkish membership could help revitalize the EU with its economic potential and growing population, the British official said. He warned, however, that it also would bankrupt the bloc's current budget and spell an end to its common agricultural policy, the system of lucrative farm subsidies that has long been the union's strongest binding force."
"Yet the debate has taken on racist and xenophobic undertones in Austria, where local slang is peppered with disparaging expressions: If something's been "Turked," it's been faked or swindled, and "Turkish luggage" is a crumpled grocery sack."
HoustonChronicle.com - Many in Europe turning up their noses at Turkey
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