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In the past, Turkey was seen as a potential EU member state and a model for Islamic liberal democracy; today, it is mainly seen as a geopolitical buffer zone.
Turkey, for its part, no longer considers its regional aspirations satisfied by its role as a NATO member or its EU accession candidacy.
Still, the EU needs to develop fresh thinking so that member states can agree on how best to manage these relationships.
NATO should state explicitly that Ukraine will not become a member, while the EU should keep open the possibility of membership for Ukraine as an incentive for domestic reform.
Those policies increased inequality, deepened the divide between northern and southern member states, and slowed economic recovery.
Some member states are touting their sovereign right to embrace unilateral action, even as they request financial assistance, while others are acting as mere creditors, ignoring the social suffering that the current debt crisis has caused.
Less wealthy member countries benefited from tools like the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund, which provided considerable resources to enable them to boost their per capita income.
Sovereignty has thus become a particularly seductive concept for citizens of the southern member countries, who have increasingly come to believe that the EU's “rigid" structure has been imposed upon them.
But they are also interdependent, with each member's actions shaped by external factors.
This interdependence stems not only from a shared currency: it is the fruit of endless socioeconomic interactions that weave the EU member states into a dynamic web.
For their part, EU member countries should recognize that they, as sovereign actors, chose integration, because the benefits of pooling their sovereignty outweighed the costs.
Accounting foibles aside, Greece’s real error was to forget – once it had become the 12th member of the eurozone on January 1, 2001 – the imperative to modernize the state through liberalization and privatization; instead, it fell back into its old bad ways.
But the stability of the EU is far from guaranteed, because a smooth and painless Brexit may tempt other member states to also quit the bloc.
According to this view, the fact that two-thirds of EU member states belong to the euro is enough to prevent the EU from unraveling.
How should it work with its member states?
But if they are to survive Europe’s crises, they must be supported by timely political decision-making, familiar regulatory frameworks across member states, and an EU-wide commitment to good governance and ethics.
Yet one important aspect of implementation has received far too little public attention: the time, money, and effort that are wasted when a member state enters an election period and forces the EU to put a project on hold.
A common election calendar for all EU member states would free up scarce resources and focus policymakers’ attention more effectively.
I’m a member of the board of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to government transparency in the United States.
In the United Kingdom, a retiree over 60 is more likely to be a trade-union member than a worker under 30 is.
Last year, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, two US senators, one member of the US House of Representatives, and a deputy national security adviser participated in a forum on the future of American power (I was the chair).
The latter alone, provided no permanent member of the Security Council disagrees, can decide whether a war is legitimized by a “just cause” (nowadays generally a gross breach of human rights).
In fact, FIFA prohibits both direct and indirect taxation on all income from the event, exempting continental soccer confederations, host-country broadcasters, and FIFA member associations, service providers, and contractors.
At least seven general elections will be held in European Union member countries this year (and France will hold regional elections in March).
Because a mere 137 votes can get a town council member elected, a large number of foreigners with a particular interest in moving onto the island could nominate a winning candidate.
When a team member has a good idea, he or she should spend months, even years, learning as much as possible about the business or sector without the pressure of finding a commercial application.
This would amount to just 0.2% of the EU’s total population – far less than the number of people that member countries will need to admit in the coming decades to replenish their aging workforces.
Indeed, at the EU level, the divisions and debates among national governments came to the fore as leaders struggled to reach an agreement on a quota system for the distribution of refugees among member states.
These came from member countries, from civil society organizations, and from letters, documents, and email messages from across Europe.
We need a single legislative council, a bicameral European Parliament, with one house representing member states, and the other the European electorate.
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