Keywords: EU - Turkey Relations
Former Vice President of the EU Commission Verheugen Assesses Turkey-EU Relations after the Arab Spring Relations between Turkey, the Arab world and the European Union under the developments in the region were discussed with a meeting co-organized by TEPAV and TOBB-ETÜ.
16/11/2011
ANKARA – Günter Verheugen, Former Vice President of the EU Commission and Advisor to TOBB Presidency, spoke at the roundtable meeting themed “Turkish Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring and Turkish-EU Relations” held on November 16, 201
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Policy Note/Nilgün Arısan Eralp Turkey – EU Relations: Has It Become a Hopeless Case?
07/10/2011
"EU accession goal has been presented as a strategic objective in the Programme of the 61st Government after the parliamentary elections of June 2011. Furthermore, the establishment of an exclusive Ministry for European Union Affairs has been r
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Support for the EU Drops by 4 Points in 3 Years The ratio of those who says that they will vote for Turkey's EU membership in a public opinion poll decreased from 58 percent to 54 percent.
10/03/2011
ANKARA - The ratio of those who says that they will vote for Turkey's EU membership in a public opinion poll decreased by 4 points from 58 percent to 54 percent in three years between 2008 and 2011.
TEPAV and A&G Research Company conducted a p
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The Latest Cyprus Report of the International Crisis Group Discussed The report "Cyprus: Six Steps toward a Settlement" by the ICG was discussed with a meeting at TEPAV.
04/03/2011
ANKARA - The latest Cyprus report of the International Crisis Group (ICG) was discussed in a meeting at TEPAV with the participation of Hugh Pope, Turkey / Cyprus Project Director. Pope said that the relations between Turkey, Cyprus and the Eur
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Second Phase of the EU Debates at TEPAV: “What does Turkey Think?” "Turkey's Neighborhood Policy" discussed at the second day of the roundtable meeting organized to contribute to the initiative by The European Council on Foreign Relations with the theme "What does Turkey Think?".
03/03/2011
ANKARA - The series of meeting organized by TEPAV in collaboration with Middle East Technical University Center for European Studies (METU CES) and Center for Economic and Foreign Policy Research (EDAM) with the participation of the European Co
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Evaluation Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp Another EU Summit in Vain for Turkey
20/12/2010
EU leaders have endorsed the decisions of the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) taken on 14 December 2010 regarding Turkey. Frankly speaking, neither the EU Summit on 16-17 December 2010, nor the preceding meeting of GAERC ha
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Evaluation Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp Quest for New Formulas in Turkey and EU Relations (New Models Based on "Good Faith" and "Necessity")
30/11/2010
Lately, the deadlock in Turkey's EU accession process and the interpretation of Turkey's active foreign policy as a "shift of axis" by some segments of "western world" resulted in such evaluations where one of the factors behind Turke
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Evaluation Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp Can "Competition Policy Chapter" be Opened to Negotiation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron Says?
27/07/2010
At his speech in TOBB (Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) on July 27, 2010 David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said that they expect the competition chapter to be opened as the next step in the accession process wi
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Verheugen at TEPAV Günter Verheugen, Former Vice President of the European Union and Advisor to the TOBB President, evaluated the latest developments in EU and EU-Turkey Relations.
22/07/2010
ANKARA- Günter Verheugen, Former Vice President of the European Union and Advisor to the TOBB President, evaluated the latest developments in EU and EU-Turkey Relations in a roundtable meeting organized by TEPAV on July 22, 2010.
Referring to the
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TEPAV: “Interesting Developments in The ‘Direct Trade Regulation’ Process…” TEPAV EU Director Arısan Eralp: "We want to believe that any EU institution and any EU member state that seeks a just, sustainable and comprehensive solution in the island, as well as a fair accession negotiation process for Turkey, would not accept such an attitude."
24/06/2010
ANKARA- "Direct Trade Regulation" draft expected to be discussed by the political leadership of the European Parliament on June 10, 2010 was not adressed on the scheduled meeting. Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament adjourned th
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