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Turkey's turmoil

Insight by Katinka Barysch
01 April 2010

Political convulsions are nothing new in Turkey. But recent events have made some observers gloomy about the fate of the country and its suitability as an EU member. Tensions are escalating between the ruling AK party, on the one hand, and the army and the secular opposition, on the other.
Issue 71 April/May 2010

26 March 2010
There can be no eurozone stability without economic growth
By Simon Tilford
Should Britain leave EU police and justice policy?
By Hugo Brady
The EU must deliver on its commitment to Pakistan
By Clara Marina O'Donnell
Why Christine Lagarde is right about Germany

Insight by Philip Whyte
26 March 2010

Greece’s recent fiscal travails have, slightly unexpectedly, thrown the spotlight on Germany’s current-account surplus. In mid-March, France’s finance minister, Christine Lagarde, urged Germany to do more to boost domestic demand – a call echoed by the European Commission’s president, José Manuel Barroso.
The Lisbon scorecard X: The road to 2020

Report by Philip Whyte, Simon Tilford
15 March 2010

The EU's Lisbon agenda has failed to deliver what it promised. Although most member-states have made some progress towards the targets they set themselves in 2000, their commitment to reform has been half-hearted.
Weak carbon prices threaten the EU’s environmental leadership

Report by Simon Tilford
05 March 2010

The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) works by capping the output of carbon dioxide and then distributing allowances to emit the gas to large energy users.
Building a European external action service: A difficult birth?

Report by Natividad Fernández Sola, Hugo Brady
05 March 2010

In foreign policy terms, the EU’s global partners often have to deal with the competing external relations bureaucracies of the European Commission, the EU’s Council Secretariat (itself acting separately for both the HR and the six-month EU Presidency) as well as the different diplomatic services of the member states.
by Hugo Brady
05 March 2010
by Simon Tilford
26 February 2010

There can be no eurozone stability without economic growth

Should Britain leave EU police and justice policy?

The EU must deliver on its commitment to Pakistan