Workshop on EU-Turkmenistan Relations
EU-Turkmenistan relations are in a position to be redefined by the proposed EU-Turkmenistan Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, which will require the consent of the European Parliament (and of the national parliaments of the EU member states). This workshop served as a debate platform with the intention of clarifying the understanding of the current political and societal dynamics in Turkmenistan. Such an agreement should represent a basis to enforce better standards of human rights, rule of law, and democracy in Turkmenistan, as well as for more intensive economic cooperation between the EU and Turkmenistan, which currently faces an economic crisis. The two concepts are apparently complementary but deciding which one constituted the more useful approach for engagement was the central point that structured the discussion. Regardless of the angle from which they approached the issue, however, a majority of participants in the workshop debate expressed support for adoption of the treaty, while some NGO representatives took a more cautious view.
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Sébastien Peyrouse and Luca Ancheschi
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- Asia and Oceania
- cooperation policy
- economic conditions
- economic cooperation
- economic policy
- economic recession
- economic situation
- ECONOMICS
- ENERGY
- EU relations
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- export policy
- GEOGRAPHY
- government violence
- human rights
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- LAW
- national minority
- natural gas
- oil industry
- political framework
- political geography
- political rights
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- rights and freedoms
- rule of law
- structural adjustment
- TRADE
- trade policy
- Turkmenistan