Nilgün Arısan Eralp gave a speech at the meeting themed “Europe with a View to the Future”.

GDANSK - TEPAV EU Director Nilgün Arısan Eralp gave a speech at the meeting themed “Europe with a View to the Future” of European Solidarity Center in Gdansk (Poland) on 8th of November, 2013.

Delivering a presentation at the second day panel titled “Idealism and Realism in EU Neighbourhood Policy in the South and the East”, Arısan Eralp stated that people addressed the potential benefits of co-operating with countries like Turkey to increase the efficiency of the neighbourhood policy, especially given the inspirational role of the country in the southern neighbourhood.

She said, “Such a policy could have had an idealist aspect too. However Turkey’s vulnerability is increasing  as a source of inspiration,  stemming  both from the slowdown in Turkey’s domestic political reform process, the instability of its economic performance and the way she has started to be  perceived in the region.”

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