Keywords: European Union
A New EU Treaty: "A Political Science Fiction?" Evaluation Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp
17/05/2013
"The ongoing crisis conditions in the EU have reincarnated the debate on a new treaty, especially in the context of governance and for more deepening. The Lisbon Treaty that entered into force at the end of 2009 could not be and exact cure to t
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“New Vectors of European Cooperation, a View from Poland” The role of new forms of cooperation in solving the EU crisis was discussed in a meeting at TEPAV.
14/02/2013
ANKARA – A meeting titled “New Vectors of European Cooperation, a View from Poland” was held at TEPAV on Thursday, 14 February 2013. The meeting moderated by TEPAV Foreign Policy Institute Director Prof. Dr. Atila Eralp who hosted Dr. Olaf
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The Feasibility Study for Business Bridges between EU and MENA Released The report was prepared by TEPAV in the scope of the project titled Global Business Bridges Initiative”
20/12/2012
ANKARA – Global Business Bridges Initiative Feasibility Study prepared by TEPAV for supporting business complementarities between European Union member states Turkey and Egypt, Tunisia and Palestine was published.
The study was conducted in
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Turkey’s Female Labor Force Challenge on Europe’s Development Agenda TEPAV Director Sak stated that low female labor force participation rate of Turkey stems from demand and supply problems of the labor market.
16/10/2012
BRUSSELS – TEPAV Director Güven Sak talked about the situation of female labor force in Turkey in this year’s European Development Days, the prominent forum on international relations and development cooperation in Europe organized by the
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Is the EU Still Relevant for Turkey? Evaluation Note / Neva Sadıkoğlu
13/09/2012
"Turks increasingly do not believe that their country will ever be admitted to the European Union. A new study by the German Turkish Foundation for Education and Scientific Research shows that only 17% of Turks believe that Turkey will become an EU
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Industrial Relations Practices as a Response to the Impact of the Economic Crisis Discussed in Brussels Experts from partner organizations including TEPAV, from six EU-member and non-member countries came together in Brussels as a part of the EU-funded project.
06/07/2012
BRUSSELS – As part of the Project titled “The Economic Crisis Impact on Industrial Relations National Systems: Policy Responses As Key Recovery Tools”, experts from Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey came together for a
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The Possibility of “Transformational Partnership” Between Turkey and the EU: Will “Opportunity” Become Reality? Policy Note/Nilgün Arısan Eralp
15/05/2012
"Although both Turkey and the European Union have accepted the need to respond to the turbulent transformation process in the Arab world – albeit with a certain amount of delay – they have not yet approached the region jointly, an alternative o
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The EU Fiscal Compact to Get out of Crisis Discussed at TEPAV Angelo Santagostino, PhD, of the University of Brescia drew attention to the rise in public debt across EU formerly controlled via the Maastricht criteria.
09/04/2012
ANKARA – The European Union (EU) fiscal compact which became a global agenda item amid the crisis was addressed with a meeting held at TEPAV.
The keynote speaker of the meeting held on Monday, 9 April 2012 was Angelo Santagostino, Jean Monne
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The European Union has to be Turkey’s Growth Story Commentary / Esen Çağlar
19/03/2012
"Ever more of us nowadays think that the crisis in Europe has shaken the foundations of Turkey’s European Union (EU) project. Looking at the acceleration of the trade figures between Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa, some get caught u
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European Commissioner Georgieva: “We owe the current mechanism to lessons we learned during the Marmara Earthquake of 1999” European Commissioner Georgieva visited TEPAV before her visit to Van and explained how the Marmara earthquake of 1999 helped them shape the current assistance mechanism.
09/02/2012
ANKARA – Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, delivered remarks at a meeting held on Thursday February 9, 2012 at TEPAV with the theme, “Humanitarian crisis respons
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