The European Union should continue to expand. The expansion, however, should stop once Turkey becomes a member of the EU. Including countries such as Ukraine, Russia, or Israel, among other southeastern European states would have numerous negative effects on the EU. If the EU includes Turkey, then it will have established itself as not being an exclusive Christian club. If the EU then goes on to include Russia and Ukraine, or any of the others, then this would overstretch the EU, thus making it a simple customs union, or possibly even cause its disintegration (Champion, Marc. 2004).

The EU should expand to include Turkey. If the EU were to include Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country, then a European-style stability would be spread to the Middle-east; it would help avoid further tensions between the Muslim world and the West (Champion [Fischer, Joschka] 2004). Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former French president, argued...