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Throughout the accession process, the EU made it clear that it could not and would not offer the same level of economic solidarity as it offered previous newcomers to the Union.
But the new regulation also seriously penalizes subsidiary financing in new EU member and accession countries.
Now opponents of Turkey’s EU accession bid have seized upon recent events to argue that the country does not meet the democratic standards necessary for full membership.
While the high court decision and the appeal to the electorate means that Turkish democracy has dodged a bullet for now, the progress of Turkey’s EU accession negotiations has been further slowed.
With a slowdown in accession negotiations, Turkish politicians will have less incentive to continue the reforms necessary for membership.
It is worth remembering that, in order to join the EU, Hungary had to meet stringent accession criteria, including credible democratic institutions and adherence to the rule of law.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier traveled to Turkey in September to help broker a deal on keeping refugees in Turkey, in exchange for restarting talks on Turkish accession to the European Union.
Boris Yeltsin’s accession to power in independent Russia saw only a partial reversal, with his peasant-gowned wife, Naina, making public appearances at his side every now and then.
This was true even in the Soviet Union, at least after Nikita Khrushchev’s accession to power in the 1950s.
Another could be early accession to the planned European Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Formal accession to the European Union would signal the completion of the modernization process.
Another is that he came to resent the West, owing to the humiliation of the stalled EU accession process and his own authoritarian ambitions, which he finally pursued in earnest after the failed military coup in the summer of 2016.
But, rather than break off the accession process, the EU should focus on stabilizing the country and salvaging its democracy.
Both sides are acutely aware that the status quo implies a high cost, by hampering their EU accession bids and imposing an unsustainable burden on their respective economies.
At the end of 2004, the EU decided to initiate accession talks.
But pro-European euphoria proved short-lived: for all practical purposes, the accession negotiations are now at an impasse.
Euro-skepticism is now at an all-time high in Turkey, fueled by some European political leaders’ rhetoric opposing Turkey’s accession, and by the EU’s own failure to dispel doubts about the feasibility of Turkey’s eventual membership.
Domestic support for EU accession was 70% at the start of the negotiations, but is now closer to 40%.
In other words, this strategy is compatible with EU accession only if the EU strengthens its own capacity for concerted action on foreign policy.
A huge benefit for the accession countries in preparing themselves to join the EU was that they were forced to conform to European business, political, and legal norms.
In short, Juncker’s plan to accelerate eurozone accession threatens to recreate in spades the chaos of the past decade, which started with a bubble in Southern Europe, and culminated in the Greek sovereign-debt crisis.
With the accession of 10 new members, the EU must become more integrated if it is to function.
In effect, this means that Russia seems to be casting aside its accession to the WTO – a major reversal of Russian strategy.
Two days earlier, United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk and European Union Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton had completed successful talks on Russia’s accession to the WTO with Putin’s first deputy, Igor Shuvalov, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, and Minister of Economy and Development Elvira Nabiullina.
A customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan is no alternative to Russia’s WTO accession.
Yet there is still hope that Putin encounters a sufficiently negative reaction that he changes his stance on WTO accession.
After all, he suspended Russia’s WTO accession talks after the August 2008 war in Georgia, only to allow them to restart this spring.
The ongoing financial crisis will almost surely slow the integration of the accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe, whose young populations are the single most dynamic source of growth in Europe today.
As Bulgaria and Romania come closer to membership, and with accession talks with Turkey and Croatia set to begin, it has become increasingly important to challenge that view.
These questions apply most pointedly – indeed, they cannot be avoided – in the case of Turkey’s possible accession to the EU.
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