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Enlargement policy: Reforms and challenges ahead
The geopolitical dimension of enlargement policy became more pronounced in 2022, when Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia asked to join the EU. Since then, fresh geopolitical challenges have accelerated the need to reform enlargement policy and cemented a shift towards the merit-based integration of new countries. Geopolitical considerations include security and defence and also foreign policy alignment, for instance in terms of relations with strategic competitors, such as China and Russia. Enlargement ...
Lives lost at sea
Year after year, tens of thousands of people try to reach the EU from the coasts of Turkey and Africa, risking their lives at sea. Irregular migration to Europe is predominantly concentrated in the Mediterranean, where there are frequent reports of people being rescued at sea and of shipwreck incidents. Between January and June 2022, on average five people died per day during their attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea, according to the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), and 28 021 persons have ...
Sprawozdanie za 2022 r. dotyczące Turcji
Turcja od dawna jest kluczowym partnerem Unii Europejskiej w takich kwestiach jak migracja, bezpieczeństwo, zwalczanie terroryzmu i handel. Jednakże po próbie zamachu stanu w 2016 r. regres demokracji w Turcji doprowadził do tego, że w 2018 r. Rada zamroziła negocjacje akcesyjne. Reelekcja prezydenta Recepa Tayyipa Erdoğana w maju 2023 r. oraz 100. rocznica utworzenia republiki przez Atatürka wskazują na potrzebę zbadania realistycznych opcji dla przyszłych stosunków UE-Turcja w ramach wzajemnie ...
EU-Türkiye relations: Macroeconomic situation and EU financial support
Following the backsliding in democratic standards that occurred after the unsuccessful coup of 2016 and the Council of the European Union's June 2018 decision ruling out the opening of any new EU accession negotiation chapters, accession talks with Türkiye are frozen. The disputes in the eastern Mediterranean that involved some Member States, as well as the military engagement of Türkiye in Syria, provided additional tensions in relations with the EU in 2019 and 2020. In February 2020, the Commission ...
Erdoğan's third term in Türkiye [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won a third term in office in elections in May, after years of growing authoritarianism in his secular Muslim country which is also a NATO member state. His presidential track record includes growing conflict with the European Union and United States, as well as unorthodox economic policies that have recently undermined people's living standards. After his victory in a run-off vote, Erdoğan promised an assertive foreign policy and a return to normalised economic ...
Türkiye's high-stakes elections [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Türkiye holds presidential and parliamentary elections on 14 May 2023, which could mark a political turnaround after two decades of increasing autocratic rule of the conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan faces an unprecedented challenge from the main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and presidential nominee for the six-party Nation Alliance bloc. The elections take place amid ...
Solidarity in EU asylum policy
The arrival of refugees and irregular migrants in the EU in unprecedented numbers in 2015 exposed a number of deficiencies in the EU's external border, asylum and migration policy, and sparked EU action through various legal and policy instruments. Today, even though the EU has been relatively successful in securing its external borders, curbing irregular migrant arrivals and increasing cooperation with third countries, Member States are still reluctant to show solidarity and do more to share responsibility ...
Nowa strategia rozszerzenia UE
Chociaż integracja europejska Bałkanów Zachodnich i Turcji nadal znajduje się w martwym punkcie, wojna w Ukrainie i trudne warunki geopolityczne nadały procesowi rozszerzenia nowy impuls, aby zapewnić jego ciągłość, spójność, wiarygodność i wpływ. W czerwcu 2022 r. liderzy UE zatwierdzili europejską perspektywę Ukrainy, Mołdawii i Gruzji. Perspektywę przyszłości krajów Bałkanów Zachodnich w UE zatwierdzono już uprzednio na szczytach w Salonikach (w 2003 r.), a ostatnio w Sofii (2018 r.), Zagrzebiu ...
Tracking the EU Commissioners’ commitments - Von der Leyen Commission, 2019 - 2024: Olivér Várhelyi
This briefing follows up the commitments made by the commissioner since 2019.
EU sanctions against Russia: alignment of the EU enlargement countries
This in-depth analysis provides an overview of alignment of EU enlargement countries with EU sanctions against Russia due to its aggression against Ukraine. It analyses the legal and political basis for the alignment with the EU’s Common and Foreign Policy, including the restrictive measures (sanctions). Furthermore, it provides a factual account of the main steps taken by the countries covered by the EU enlargement policy in the Western Balkans and Turkey (Türkiye), coupled by a brief assessment ...