The articles and opinions on the TEPAV website are solely those of the authors and do not represent the official views of TEPAV.
© TEPAV, all rights reserved unless otherwise stated.
Söğütözü Cad. No:43 TOBB-ETÜ Campus, Section 2, 06560 Söğütözü-Ankara
Phone: +90 312 292 5500Fax: +90 312 292 5555
tepav@tepav.org.tr / tepav.org.trTEPAV is a non-profit, non-partisan research institution that contributes to the policy design process through data-driven analysis, adhering to academic ethics and quality without compromise.
How Do EU Decisions of December 2009 Summit Affect Turkey-EU Negotiation Process?
The EU General Affairs Council (Foreign Ministers) meeting, whose prospect as an unpleasant turning point in Turkey’s relations with the EU and particularly in the negotiation process had aroused anxiety since 2006, was held quietly on 7-8 December 2009, almost without any resonance either at the EU Leaders Summit on 10-11 December 2009 or in Turkey. Apart from the fact that Turkey’s agenda for the week of the summit was occupied with a series of important and nasty developments, the reasons why the meeting did not create a much of storm can be summarized as follows:
