Second Borrell report: life saver or “Plus ça change plus la même chose” Evaluation Note / Nilgün Arısan Eralp
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The European Union (EU) has been looking for ways and means to engage with Türkiye for quite some time, actually after the country’s accession negotiations have effectively come to a standstill in 2018.
The main factors influencing the EU in this direction have been the following:
- Strong demand/need to have a sustainable stability and security in the East Mediterranean;
- Its unsolved migrant/refugee problem.
After the elections in Türkiye the number of the reasons leading the European Union - that has been curiously waiting for the result - to determine a “new” path in its relations with Turkey increased. The following developments has influenced the EU in addition to the aforementioned ones:
- The current administration would at least last five more years there is a need to engage with it;
- Geostrategic and security environment has been changing fast, especially in the EU’s neighbourhood;
- Türkiye’s reluctance for Sweden’s accession to NATO;
- After the Russian aggression enlargement has been back in the EU’s agenda, hence something else had to be found for the “awkward” partner that is officially a candidate as well.
You may read evaluation note from here.
- Second Borrell report life saver or plus ca change plus la m me chose
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