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  • Is Turkey our partner now?
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 28 November 2011
    Is Turkey our partner now?
  • Turkey's choice
    Opinion piece 02 June 2011
    Turkey's choice
  • Turkey and the EU: Can stalemate be avoided?
    Policy brief by Katinka Barysch, 16 December 2010
  • Some advice for Turkey
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, 01 December 2005

    Turkey remains far from its goal of entering the EU, despite starting accession talks in October and gaining a broadly favourable progress report from the European Commission in November.
  • The real crisis for Europe
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Newsweek, 10 October 2005

    So, is Turkey to start membership talks with the European Union? The reception could hardly be more hostile. As the public sees it, the EU is big enough already. Political leaders from France's Nicolas Sarkozy to Germany's Angela Merkel are opposed.
  • Can variable geometry save EU enlargement?
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 03 October 2005

    All over Europe, politicians are becoming more hostile to further EU enlargement. One reason is that electorates in many countries oppose it. Another is that the EU’s ‘widening’ has always been closely linked to its ‘deepening’.
  • 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.
  • Why Europe should embrace Turkey
    Report by Katinka Barysch, 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.
  • 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".
  • 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.