The European Commission’s annual report on Turkey’s progress towards full EU membership showed that some advances had been made over the last year, but it continued to raise concerns about freedom of expression, the independence of the judiciary and the military’s interference in political life, among other issues.
There is a spectre haunting the next Conservative Government of the UK: it is the spectre of Europe.
This ARI outlines the six priority areas of the Swedish EU Presidency during the second half of 2009 and looks at its key challenges.
The Independent Commission on Turkey boldly defends Turkey’s ailing bid to join the EU and rebuffs the stiff opposition to its full membership from the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and some other EU leaders
Due to the economic crisis in Portugal, since the beginning of the new century many of its former immigrants have moved to Spain and other European countries, in parallel with the increase in Portuguese emigration.
While EU member states have been reluctant to harmonise their policies for managing legal immigration, cooperation for the prevention and control of irregular migration has progressed.
The EU has a democratic deficit and some reforms have been proposed to increase the involvement of national parliaments in its political system.
Since the 1990s the EU has increasingly succeeded in developing a role in the internal security domain. However, this is constrained by the limitations imposed by the Member states in this regard.
Turkey has a growing strategic role in its overlapping neighbourhood with the EU.
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