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If the European Union is to be more than a bystander in international affairs, it must encourage Turkey's membership bid. This is the last time I will be writing an opinion...

Turkey's bid to join the European Union has stalled and talks scheduled for 22 December have been cancelled. Belgium, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of...

Spain looks to open new chapters with Turkey, which implement food-safety reforms. Spain is pressing to overcome the resistance of other member states of the European Union...

As its isolationist instincts decline, Turkey is trying to promote a policy of ‘zero problems' with its neighbours, while pushing for EU membership. Western observers...

After years of relying on financial support, Turkey's economy is in good health, but unemployment is just one of the problems that must be faced. Last month, Recep Tayyip...

Everyone would agree that the accession process with Turkey is a long open-ended process depending on Turkey's compliance with the EU's political, economic and acquis...

The second government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed its intention to revive Turkey's vanishing EU perspective. Within the new government, EU affairs have been...

For anyone wondering how EU members would decide a question of strategic importance, this past week's dithering over Turkey's membership negotiations gave the disheartening...

The EU and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on Monday (4 December) which would make it easier to import oil and gas from the central Asian republic. The accord calls for...

EU diplomats are looking for ways to avoid the predicted “train crash” with Turkey by continuing accession negotiations on areas not directly affected by Ankara's refusal...

The EU seems to be heading for a difficult end of the year with Turkey (‘MEPs slam Ankara's slow reforms', 31 August-6 September). But it was absolutely clear, from the...

After the marathon meeting of ministers in Luxembourg on the question of future EU enlargement, everybody's talking Turkey. Here's a quick tour de table on how Europe's...

Progress on Turkey's EU accession talks is seen as vital if there is to be an improvement in women's rights in the country. That is the message from a group of Turkish...

Luxembourg's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn remarked after December's tempestuous negotiations with Turkey that Ankara had a lot to learn about negotiating with...

The absence of the European Union only dawned on me gradually. At first, during a trip to Almaty last December, I was too busy being impressed by how active Western civil...

THE EU would be dealing a blow to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda by welcoming Turkey into its bosom, according to Ankara's EU envoy Oguz Demiralp. “When Turkey becomes a...

Geographically speaking, Turkey is as European a country as France can pretend to be ... South American (if Turkish European soil is compared to French Guyana). With less...

WHEN it comes to the vexed question of Turkey's possible membership of the EU, no-one can accuse Europe's think-tanks of being out of sync with the public mood. The...

EU MINISTERS are to block a bid by Kazakhstan for the presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe after Kazakh parliamentary elections on...

THE most optimistic scenario indicates that Turkey could join the EU on 1 January 2010, assuming that negotiations start at the beginning of 2005 and are closed at the end...