Turkey -- Europe: privileged partnership -- less democracy?
Turkey -- Europe: privileged partnership -- less democracy?

Summary/Abstract: EU-Turkey accession negotiations are at a dead end. Important EU countries are against Turkey’s EU accession, while in Turkey there is a nationalist backlash that makes conceivable the choice of other options, different from Turkey’s further Europeanisation. European politicians have proposed as ‘Plan B’ ‘privileged partnership’. The disadvantage of the latter is that Europe would lose an instrument of control that until now has facilitated the effective establishment of democracy and rule of law in Turkey.

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