Accession of Turkey to the European Union Commentary

Blank Checks

Doug Bandow | Jul 20, 2009
Europe will never have its own military capabilities unless America stops subsidizing its defense.

More Friends, More War

Doug Bandow | Jul 13, 2009
Expanding NATO doesn’t improve American security. It antagonizes Russia and could lead to war.

Slow Train to Brussels

Kathleen R. McNamara | Jun 25, 2009
The EU’s response to the economic crisis is limited because it has to be. The union has always balanced national interests with supranational ones.

Young Turks

Doug Bandow | Apr 09, 2009
Barack Obama needs to stop lecturing Europe about Turkey’s accession to the EU. Brussels, not Washington, should decide whether or not to include Ankara.

Shanghaied by Moscow

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Sep 09, 2008
Russia’s Georgian adventure is accepted by the SCO, and makes a loser of the EU.

European Disunion

Doug Bandow | Aug 05, 2008
Why Europe will watch as America and China dominate the next century. Ireland’s failure to ratify a new European-integration treaty highlights the disconnect between the EU’s superpower ambitions and popular opinion.

A Mediterranean Membership Club

Leon Hadar | May 21, 2007
The United States should view Nicolas Sarkozy’s Mediterranean Union initiative as an opportunity for renewed translatlantic cooperation and burden-sharing in the Middle East.

A League of Ambiguities

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | May 07, 2007
As events in Turkey show, advocates of a League of Democracies must come to grips with the ambiguity that characterizes governments—including crucial allies—around the world.

Making France a Power for the Future, Part I

The National Interest | Apr 17, 2007
TNI Exclusive: Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s next president, discusses his views on France’s role within the European Union in a conversation with The National Interest and Politique Internati

Towards a Truer European Union?

Marisa Morrison
Raffaello Pantucci
| Nov 20, 2006
At Friday’s EU-Russia summit, EU diplomats face the humiliating prospect of a complete breakdown in discussions—due in part to European disunion on key foreign policy matters.

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