European Commission- TURKEY – 2014 PROGRESS REPORT

EU Urges Members to Stop Stalling With Turkey

The Wall Street Journal Europe (USA) Wednesday,  8 octobre 2014 By Laurence Norman and Yeliz Candemir Brussels – The European Union’s executive urged member states Wednesday to advance long-stalled membership talks with Turkey but underscored the obstacles in the way by raising “serious concerns” about government meddling with the judiciary and restrictions on the press

Dealing with Turkey After Ukraine: Why the EU Should Let the Enlargement Approach Go

GTE Commentary (Istituto Affari Internazionali) No. 15, October 2014 by Antoaneta L. Dimitrova * The events in Ukraine at the end of 2013 might be a sign that we have reached the end of the EU’s monopoly on transformative power. President Putin, but also other leaders of important EU neighbours are playing a different geopolitical

Turkey after the EP elections: Time for a new debate

Perspectives (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung) Issue 10, October 2014, pp. 47-50     Türkçe Ska Keller * The accession of Turkey to the EU has traditionally been an important topic for right-wing and far-right campaigns. This time, even though it did appear in the context of immigration and prejudices against Islam, it did not play a major role

The next five years will not see any new enlargement by the EU, Jean-Claude Juncker stated in his guidelines for the next European Commission. However, during his Parliament hearing on Tuesday (30 September), Enlargement Commissioner-designate Johannes Hahn said there will be no “twiddling of thumbs” either. EurActiv Germany reports.