In the coming two years, three key decision making bodies of the Council of Europe (CoE) will be headed by “non-European Union” Europeans : the Norwegian secretary-general, the Turkish Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) president and the Committee of Ministers’ chairmanships consecutively assumed by Switzerland, Macedonia, Turkey and Ukraine. What does this mean for Europe ?
The future of the Council of Europe and, in particular, its correlation with the overshadowing (...)
Par MURAT DAOUDOV director - EU Relations Centre / Union of Municipalities of Marmara
L’opposition française à l’adhésion de la Turquie à l’UE empoisonne les relations entre deux pays. Or, la Turquie a autant besoin du soutien français au Nord que la France de son alliance au Sud.
Lancée en 2007, l’idée de l’Union méditerranéenne visait, entre autres, à confiner la Turquie au Sud, provoquant l’opposition d’Ankara à cette voie détournée cherchant à la détourner de la voie de Bruxelles. Même si par la (...)
Established in 1949, with a dream to lay down the foundations of a “united Europe,” the Council of Europe lost this initiative to the Brussels-based EEC/EU.
Nowadays the council — of which most people are unaware, despite the fact that it represents “Greater Europe,” from the Atlantic to the Pacific — must reinvent itself to meet the challenges of the 21st century. To do so, it should move its seat to İstanbul The development of the European Union has for decades overshadowed the Council of (...)
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