Germany disrupts the spirit of EU

This week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) raised its forecast for U.K. growth. Experts agree that the recovery of the U.K.'s economic performance after Britain's vote to leave the EU has been effective in the forecast.

Uneasy about the possibility that Brexit might serve as a model for other EU countries such as France and Italy, Brussels is accordingly said to have been developing individual economic-political relationship models for each member country.

So, how has the EU lost its charm despite the numerous criteria required to become a member of the union? How has it evolved into a structure from which the members are looking forward to leaving?

This has various reasons, many of which are directly pertinent to the performance of the EU over the last decade. However, the performance concerns are not only economic.

Since the EU has been declining in global economic competition, it is politically leaning toward more conservative and reactionary approaches. Correspondingly, xenophobia, racism and orientalism increasingly predominate across the EU.

Another example of this inclination has been seen recently when Germany introduced a de facto travel and meeting ban on some Turkish ministers.

The German government has compounded their de facto practices to such an extent that they have even been applauded by the racist Dutch politician Geert Wilders.The latest scandal Germany has created was are the cancellation of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu's scheduled conference in Hamburg.

Noticing at the last moment that the conference hall lacks a fire detection system, Berlin even canceled the hotel the minister's reservation was in.

You did not read incorrectly. A country representing the EU has been resorting to methods reminiscent of the Stasi to prevent an EU candidate country's people from meeting with their minister.

Also, there have been increasing complaints that German citizens of Turkish origin, who support the Turkish politicians planning to visit Germany ahead of the constitutional amendment referendum on April 16, face a governmental crackdown in their professional and social lives.

Many Turkish workers whose bonuses have been cut are now applying to the European Court of Human Rights.

While embracing several terrorist groups such as the outlawed PKK and its Syrian offshoot the People's Protection Units (YPG), which are accountable for thousands of casualties in Turkey and the region, Germany displays a hostile attitude toward Turkey and millions of Turks living in Germany, something not dissimilar from recent history.

People are sensing that a new spirit redolent of the Nazis and the East German dictatorship is impending, as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rightfully argues.

Why do the democratic mechanisms of Europe remain silent, while the German government disregards the spirit of the EU and endeavors to transform the union into a structure evocative of Hitler's Steel Helmets?

Are they waiting for Germany to send millions of Turks to concentration camps or exile?

History does not forgive mistakes.