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Originally Posted by Lagun
The point is that American policy is in favor of Europe absorbing Turkey, Bosnia, Albania...
Huntington, who I do not support particulary, is much more restrictive, as he believes that the limits to Europe are in the Orthodox countries. He does not considre them Europe.
My question is: is that a general feeling within the forum?
Is Transilvania more Europe than Romania? Is Croatia more Europe than Serbia? Should Greece, one of the cradles of Europe and rational thinking, be considered a European country nowdays?
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Oh man... I am not a supporter of Samuel Huntington's theories in any way but I have read him and what you have just said is an utter nonsense.
Huntington never said that Greece, Serbia or Romania were not Europe : actually he does not endorse the idea of a common European civilization and divides what we know as "Europe" between the "Western Catholico-Protestant civilization" (with its offshoots in Northern America and Oceania) and the "Eastern Orthodox civilization". What he describes in your first post is not the borders of Europe but the borders between the Western and the Eastern Orthodox civilization; and, in his opinion, to be effective the European Union should be restricted to Western Catholic & Protestant European countries - but that would not be an "European Union", rather a "West European Union".