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Unblocking Turkey's EU Accession [1]

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Unblocking Turkey's EU Accession

Authors:
Nathalie Tocci [3]
21/07/2010

Debates over Turkey’s application for EU membership are rife with pessimism nowadays. Much of the gloom comes from the many obstacles either directly or indirectly posed by the Cyprus conflict and its manifold repercussions on EU-Turkey relations. Resolving the Cyprus conflict remains the only means to untie the Gordian knot at the heart of Turkey’s troubled accession process, but a settlement of the conflict on the island may not be in sight. However, hidden within the technicalities of the post-Lisbon EU decision-making process may be a ray of light that could unblock Turkey’s troubled path to Europe. The Direct Trade Regulation, proposed back in 2004 by the European Commission to lift the isolation of northern Cyprus, may be resurrected by the new decisionmaking procedures of the post- Lisbon EU. Were this to take place, much needed momentum may be injected in Turkey’s ailing EU accession process.

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  • Details

    in Insight Turkey, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July-September 2010), p. 27-31
  • In:
    Altri paper e articoli [2]
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    1302-177X

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Full text (Pdf) [4]

Source URL:https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c09/unblocking-turkeys-eu-accession

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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c09/unblocking-turkeys-eu-accession [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/other-papers-and-articles [3] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/nathalie-tocci [4] http://file.insightturkey.com/Files/Pdf/insight_turkey_vol_12_no_3_2010_tocci.pdf