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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's European Union minister accused Germany on Thursday of harming EU credibility by trying to dictate policy towards Ankara, after Chancellor Angela Merkel said there would be no expansion of a customs union or deepening in EU-Turkish ties.

Relations between Turkey and European Union countries have deteriorated sharply after a series of disputes linked to Turkey's crackdown in the wake of last year's failed coup attempt, in which 250 people were killed.

Tensions with Germany are particularly acute because Turkish authorities detained several German nationals including a journalist and a rights activist. Germany is also withdrawing forces from Turkey's Incirlik air base after Ankara restricted access to German politicians.

Turkey formally remains a candidate to join the European Union but Merkel said on Wednesday that no new chapters in accession talks were being opened and aid to Turkey had been cut to a minimum. There would be no expansion in the customs union, she said, and "no kind of deepening at all" in relations.

Turkey's European Union minister Omer Celik said Merkel's comments were unfortunate and damaging.

"We should emphasize that no EU member should give orders to EU institutions or EU processes," he told a news conference in Ankara. "These situations are very dangerous, they represent statements that harm the EU's credibility."

Celik said both Turkey and the European Union would gain from updating the customs union. "But they are acting as if doing so is a favor to Turkey. Let me be very clear, we are in no rush," he said.

Germany, Europe's leading power, has toughened its stance towards Turkey in recent weeks, urging citizens to exercise caution if traveling there and threatening measures that could hinder German investment.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says the post-coup crackdown, in which 50,000 people have been detained and 150,000 sacked or suspended from the judiciary, journalism, academia and other sectors was needed to address deep-seated security threats.

Domestic and foreign critics accuse him of using a state of emergency as cover to root out opposition and strengthen his grip on power.

Celik called on Berlin to cooperate with Turkey's request for the extradition of Adil Oksuz, a theology lecturer suspected of playing a major role in the failed coup.

Turkish authorities say Oksuz was detained near an air base hours after the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, only to be released by a judge two days later. He has been on the run since.

Turkish media have reported that he has been seen in Frankfurt and Ulm and given a temporary residence permit by Germany's Baden-Wurttemberg state.

"No ally of ours can harbor a killer," Celik said. "Even the possibility of someone with a clear tie to the coup attempt being harbored by our ally is saddening."

Germany's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that the Turkish request would be examined by a German judge before the German government could make a decision on the request.

Celik repeated Turkey's complaint that it submitted thousands of files to Germany and requested suspects to be handed over without any response from Berlin.

"The Oksuz issue is very clear. We are allies with Germany, allied countries. We expect an attitude that is fitting of our level of cooperation," he said.

The justice ministers of the two countries spoke by phone for an hour on Thursday, Turkey's justice ministry said. It described the conversation as "very productive and positive", but gave no details.

Germany has dismissed accusations that it is not cooperating with Ankara's requests.

Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Dominic Evans

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Some pro-EU MPs are hoping the UK receives a poor Brexit trade deal so voters want to rejoin the European Union in a second referendum

REMAINERS are hatching a fresh plot to take Britain back into the EU in the mid-20s, it emerged last night.

Pro-EU MPs hope a poor post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels may open the way for a second referendum, reports the New Statesman.

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They believe voters will be more likely to vote for EU membership after they see what our new trading relationship with Brussels looks like hoping its a failure.

Government insiders say a new UK-EU trade deal wont be ready until 2024.

Remainers believe voters could then be offered a choice between the new arrangement and rejoining the EU through rules set out under Article 49 of the Lisbon Treaty.

This is an alternative strategy to staging a premature referendum in 2019, sources explained.

A Labour MP told the current affairs magazine that campaigning for a second vote before a new trade deal is in place would simply be too risky because losing it would end any hope of reversing Brexit.

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The member of the Democratic Party (PD) said the European Union had never helped the town despite demanding it spend thousands of euros housing migrants.

Speaking to RT UK, Mr Ioculano said: "The European Union: we've never seen them do anything here. I don't think the EU has given us any real support.

"The real expense for us comes from underage migrants who the town, according to the law, has to take care of. Generally, we'd be reimbursed around half of the expenses but there are tens of thousands of euros our town is paying because of this."

Locals have recently taken to the street to protest the construction of a new shelter for underage migrants.

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One of the protesters said: "I don't blame these people, I blame the Government. I don't know what they're doing. I'm just here to say that we can't take it anymore."

The European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos recently claimed that the European states were not doing enough to "deport" migrants.

He said: "We need a stricter and more effective policy for deportation. Too few migrants are being deported, the European states have to do more."

Mr Avramopoulos statement was a complete U-turn over a statement made in 2016 wherein he committed the EU efforts to welcome more people in its member states.

He said: "Let me remind you that Europe already has the highest asylum standards in the world, and we have to uphold those and our commitmentto protect those seeking protection."

The council of the Ventimiglia borough of Marina San Giuseppe told Italian newspaper Riviera24 said they were protesting against a "system that strongly penalised the town and its people."

They said: "We don't believe false promises anymore. It's better to say that we have been, and continue to be, fooled by the lies we've been told until now."

In July, several Sicilian mayors joined forces to protest the lack of policies regulating migrants settlement in the island.

Governor Rosario Crocetta told La Repubblica that the Italian Government needed to "give more money" to the regions and towns while the EU needed to consider "new incentives".

He said: "The issue needs to be addressed on a global level, shouting if necessary. Why should a French boat filled with migrants dock in Italy rather than France?

"We can't take over all the hospitality. There's a political issue."

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BUDAPEST - In a time when most of Europe is in the grips of atheism, there is a nation where Christianity seems to not only be holding its own but some say is thriving.

Imagine a government that is unabashedly Christian, that thinks Christian values are worth defending; that wants to protect and even nourish the family.

Welcome to Hungary.

A Christian Nation

Hungary's constitution is explicitly Christian, and says that marriage is between one man and one woman and that life begins at conception. It even includes the phrase, "God bless the Hungarians."

Hungary's Faith Church, with 300 branches, is one of the largest Pentecostal churches in Europe, with 70,000 attendees.

Help for Persecuted Christians

And the Hungarian government has taken on the role of protecting Christianity. It's even set up an office to help persecuted Christians worldwide.

When CBN News revealed the story of Sweden's threat to deport Iranian actress Aideen Strandsson back to certain prison and torture in Islamic Iran, only one nation stepped up and offered her asylum: Hungary.

The Hungarian government says, "Taking in persecuted Christians is our moral and constitutional duty."

Returning to Its Christian Roots

Hungarian policy analyst Istvn Pcza says Hungary has only returned to its roots as a historic bastion of Christianity, dating back over a thousand years.

"Hungary wants to protect the European values; European Christian Jewish values," he told CBN News.

Christianity in Hungary has survived almost 200 years of Muslim Ottoman rule and Soviet Communist domination.

Secretary of State Zoltn Kovcs told us, "You have to stick to your traditions and legacies. Europe's legacy is a Christian legacy, not necessarily in a religious form but most definitely in a cultural form."

Resisting Islamization

And it's this belief that has Hungary locked in a battle with the European Union over migrants.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Mihly Orbn has accused the European Union of trying to Islamize Europe, and Hungary has infuriated Brussels by building a fence to keep illegal migrants out.

Orbn has essentially told the European Union to 'take a hike' when it comes to open borders. Hungary has seen the terrorism and chaos caused by migration in Western Europe and has said, "not here."

The European Union has even gone to court to force Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to take in migrants. Mr. Oban has accused Brussels of "blackmail."

"Securing the borders to stop illegal migration is indeed a solution, and this is actually the only way to reinstate law and order at the borders of the European union, and not the other way around," Kovcs told CBN News.

Islam Matters

Kovcs says it matters that most of the migrants trying to enter Hungary are Muslim. And he says Western European nations are paying a heavy price by pretending that Islam doesn't matter.

"We've been living with and close to Islam for centuries in the past and we know about it. So, that's why it does matter who has come in and in what manner people are coming," Kovcs told CBN News.

Orbn Is No Putin, Or Is He?

Orbn is often portrayed in the western media as a version of Vladimir Putin; an undemocratic strongman. In fact, at an EU summit in 2015, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reportedly greeted Orbn with the words, "Hello, dictator."

Hungary is most certainly not a dictatorship. But Orbn's critics accuse him of corruption and using the instruments of government against his political opponents, including the recent billboard campaign against billionaire George Soros.

Tams Lattmann of the Institute of International Relations told us, "What we see in Hungary today is the shameless use of public money, of tax money to formulate pro-government messages."

Bulcs Hunyadi of the Political Capital Policy Research and Consulting Institute said, "Since 2008 the Hungarian government headed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbn has been continuously weakening the system of checks and balances and weakening democratic institutions."

But Orbn, a man who even his critics concede is a skilled politician, doesn't seem to have a serious political rival, and he will probably remain in power, meaning Hungary's standoff with the European Union over migrants is likely to escalate.

Is also means that Hungary will continue to have a government that thinks Christianity is worth protecting.

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A political discussion show which hosted a panel of experts to discuss the current political climate in Poland as insinuated that, instability in the nation was caused by the European Unions goal to deprive Europe of its independence.

Krzysztof Karo, a Polish publicist and one of the panelists accused the EU of writing its communist agenda into its own laws.

He said, In March this year the European Commission signed its white paper, which was dubbed the Rome Declaration.

The only binding manifesto of the EU became the communist manifesto from 1941.

Karo stressed further, It is written in the programme that the first goal is to erase borders dividing Europe into sovereign states and that every single undertaking must be verified under this first point', an action he underlined as the root of all political problems prevailing in the continent.

Another panelist, Stanisaw Michalkiewicz, a lawyer and political commentator, who followed suit in Karo sentiments accused the EU of being a Fourth Reich.

Stanislaw said, I think that we should be wary of the danger that we will fail to see the wood for the trees.

He also said, It is written in the programme that the first goal is to erase borders dividing Europe into sovereign states and that every single undertaking must be verified under this first point.

There is a communist revolution which indeed is in full advance right now, and not just from March, but for a long time now.

He was of the opinion that, With the use of European institutions it heads towards the dissolution of countries and nations, but even when that happens, someone will have to steer the European Union. Mr Michalkiewicz however went on to state his belief of the need for Germany to take over leadership as the EUs political director.

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