There’s a pattern among North European leaders who push hardest for Turkish membership: none of them pay the price.
Stubb wants Turkey in the EU.
Turkey doesn’t claim Finnish islands. Doesn’t occupy Finnish territory. Doesn’t challenge Finnish borders. Doesn’t dispute Finnish waters.
For Finland, Turkish membership costs nothing. For Greece and Cyprus, it costs everything.
If joining the EU “gains you power” and stabilizes the neighbourhood, why stop at Turkey?
Apply the same logic to Russia. Let’s hear Stubb explain, slowly, why one works and the other doesn’t.
@alexstubb
🇪🇺 Turkey’s illegal maritime claims are not merely a dispute over boundaries. They represent a broader challenge to EU sovereignty, international law, regional stability, and the credibility of Europe’s collective security framework.
The Eastern Mediterranean may ultimately test the credibility of the European Union itself.
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Wait till they find out that Germany and other member states with major financial and business interests in Turkey will no longer be able to block sanctions against Turkey. 🤓
🇬🇷🇪🇺A 12-nautical-mile Greek territorial sea in the Aegean is not a provocation. It is a legal formality - one that is long overdue.
🔹The geographic reality already exists. With over 3,000 Greek islands and islets, the Aegean is not an open expanse of international waters. It is, by nature and by law, a continuous Greek and European maritime domain.
🔹A 12nm territorial sea strengthens Greek sovereignty over its islands and surrounding waters, closes long-exploited legal loopholes, and reinforces the external maritime borders of the European Union.
🇪🇺Every additional nautical mile of Greek territorial sea is an additional nautical mile of EU external border - strengthening control over irregular migration, security threats, and resource rights in one of Europe’s most strategically sensitive regions.
🔹 Under UNCLOS and customary international law, a 12-nautical-mile territorial sea is a universally recognized sovereign entitlement. Greece has simply refrained from exercising it in full -for decades - under the explicit threat of Turkish military force.
❌Europe’s borders are defined by law, not by bullies, and the EU can no longer tolerate this.
📌Η απάντηση του Αρχηγού ΓΕΑ μοιράζει εγκεφαλικά στην Τουρκία μετά την απειλή κατά της Λήμνου: «Καλύτερα να το σκεφτούν πολλές φορές πριν μας αντιμετωπίσουν»
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➡️Διαβάστε εδώ: https://t.co/nwmdU5yYH3
This is no coincidence. Lemnos has long been a focal point of Turkish revisionism in the Aegean.
The image speaks for itself: EFES-2026 Exercise appears to use a Greek island as a reference point. Yet another reminder that the defensive militarization of Greek islands is not a choice, it is a necessity.
Context: Turkish pilots from the 161st "Yarasa" (Bat) Squadron at Bandırma Air Base were photographed by the official Anadolu Agency preparing for exercise EFES-2026, with the island of Lemnos prominently displayed on the briefing screen behind them.
🇪🇺EU Faces Turkish Challenge to European Sovereignty Over Maritime Territory Grab.
Turkey is moving to codify its “Blue Homeland” doctrine into law, transforming an expansionist maritime strategy into official state policy. The move would amount to a direct challenge to the territorial integrity and sovereign rights of both Greece and the European Union in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.
The Blue Homeland doctrine is a revisionist geopolitical project that rejects established maritime boundaries and seeks to expand Turkish control across large areas of the region. By turning it into law, Ankara would openly contest the sovereignty of more than 150 Greek islands and islets in the Aegean, many of which form part of the EU’s external borders.
If Turkey enacts the proposed legislation, the EU will have no alternative but to impose sanctions and provide Greece with enhanced military support.
«Αν η Τουρκία επιλέξει τον δρόμο του πολέμου εναντίον μας, θα πληρώσει πολύ βαρύ τίμημα»
«Υπήρχαν Ιρανοί που σκέφτονταν το ίδιο πράγμα, και δείτε πού βρίσκονται τώρα».
Υπουργούς Πολιτισμού του Ισραήλ Μίκι Ζόχαρ : Η Τουρκία θα πρέπει να αντιμετωπίζεται ως «εχθρικό κράτος»
@NemesisGRE Και εγώ άρχισα να τους κάνω μπλοκ. Δεν έχω κανένα θέμα να μπει πραγματικά άνθρωπος και να μιλήσουμε και ας έχουμε αντίθετες απόψεις, αλλά αυτά τα τρολ μποτ, έλεος!
@vonderleyen You are embarrassing yourself.
The President of the European Commission is responsible for the security of all Europe-not just the Baltic states.
You have convinced those who threaten Europe that they have nothing to fear.