Enlargement Preferences and Policy-Making in the European Union: Impacts on TURKEY

1 January 2003

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of European Integration

Vol. 25 (1) , 17-30
https://doi.org/10.1080/0703633031000077181

Abstract

European Union policy changed considerably towards Turkey between 1997 and 1999. This paper analyses the circumstances surrounding this change, focusing on (a) the modification in the overall enlargement strategy of the EU and (b) the effect of the change in particular member states' preferences with regard to Turkish candidacy. We contend that these two developments converged to produce a rather dramatic alteration in policy towards Turkey from one of exclusion to one of inclusion.

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