Judy Asks: Is the EU Selling Out to Turkey?

Every week, a selection of leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world. In this issue the question is: Is the EU Selling Out to Turkey? - in the context of the outcome of the International Summit: Meeting of the EU heads of state or government with Turkey, Brussels, 29 November 2015.

+ Rosa Balfour - Senior fellow in the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
+ Henri Barkey - Director of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center
+ Federiga Bindi - Senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
+ Rana Birden Çorbacıoğlu - Civil society activist
+ Thomas de Waal - Nonresident senior associate at Carnegie Europe
+ Thanos Dokos - Director general of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
+ Ian Lesser - Executive director of the Transatlantic Center, the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States
+ Kati Piri - Member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs
+ Hugh Pope - Director of communications and outreach at International Crisis Group
+ Marietje Schaake - Vice-chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations With the United States
+ Stephen Szabo - Executive director of the Transatlantic Academy
+ Nathalie Tocci - Deputy director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs

• Primary Source

ESO: Background Information: International Summit: Meeting of the EU heads of state or government with Turkey, Brussels, 29 November 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/international-summit-meeting-of-the-eu-heads-of-state-or-government-with-turkey-brussels-29-november-2015/

openDemocracy: Can Europe Make It?, 11.12.15: Turkey: from 'role model' to 'illiberal democracy' https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/gulay-turkmen-dervisoglu/turkey-from-role-model-to-illiberal-democracy

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