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  • Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
    Insight by Rem Korteweg, 23 August 2013
    Europe's struggle for influence in Egypt
  • Turkey’s Twitter generation is its European future
    Insight by Heather Grabbe, 19 June 2013
    Gezi park protest
  • Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
    Bulletin article by Rem Korteweg, 25 March 2013
    Why Europe should change its approach to Azerbaijan
  • Slow train from Istanbul
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Wall Street Journal, 27 September 2005

    The talks on Turkey's accession to the EU are scheduled to start on Monday. But public support for Turkish EU entry continues to fall: less than one-third of voters in the "old" EU support Turkish membership, according to the EU pollster Eurobarometer.
  • Russia, the EU and the common neighbourhood
    Essay by Dmitri Trenin, 02 September 2005

    Throughout the 1990s, Russia tended to underestimate the impact of the EU's forthcoming eastward enlargement. Compared with NATO's expansion into post-Communist territory, EU enlargement looked like the lesser evil.
  • Why Europe should embrace Turkey
    Report by Katinka Barysch, Steven Everts, Heather Grabbe, 01 September 2005

    A majority of voters in the EU, and many politicians, oppose Turkish accession. The essays in this report examine the fears concerning Turkey's membership and argue that many of them are misplaced.
  • Turkey offers EU more punch
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    European Voice, 01 September 2005

    Rather than undermine the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, Turkish membership of the Union could boost the bloc's power in trouble spots across the Middle East and Central Asia, argues Charles Grant.
  • Crunch time on Iran: Five ways out of a nuclear crisis
    Policy brief by Mark Leonard, 01 August 2005

    For the last few weeks Iran has been openly flirting with the idea of developing nuclear weapons. The European Union, under the leadership of Britain, France and Germany, has been trying to stop it.
  • A beacon of liberty flickers: Observations on Georgia
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    New Statesman, 18 July 2005

    President Bush proclaimed Georgia a "beacon for liberty" when he visited Tbilisi in May. Georgia has certainly made great progress since people power overthrew the corrupt and incompetent regime of Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003. Nevertheless, clouds are dimming the light of that beacon.
  • The economics of Turkish accession
    Essay by Katinka Barysch, 01 July 2005

    Countries that want to join the EU need to comply with four accession criteria: One is political, one is related to EU law and two concern economics.
  • Variable geometry
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Prospect, 01 July 2005

    The end of enlargement would be a tragedy. Perhaps it can be saved by "variable geometry".