Turkey
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Arms industry
Greece still splashes out billions on defence
11 January 201234Die Zeit Hamburg -
Press review
Franco-Turkish spat over genocide law
23 December 201113PresseuropYeni Şafak, Milliyet, Zaman & 3 others -
13 December 201116Milliyet Istanbul
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Eurozone crisis
And if Greece goes...
4 November 201113Le Figaro Paris -
Germany-Turkey
Bitter birthday
3 November 20115PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
European Union
An enlargement of illusions
13 October 20113Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
21 September 201111PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau
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Mediterranean
Gas pressure rises a few bars
20 September 2011PresseuropPolitis -
Turkey-Cyprus
Ankara starts spat with EU
19 September 20111PresseuropLa Stampa -
Germany
50 years of Turkish immigration
1 September 2011PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
24 August 20111PresseuropDie Presse
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2 August 2011PresseuropHürriyet
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Cyprus
The countdown has begun
27 July 20112Adevărul Bucharest -
Editorial
Support Ankara against Assad
17 June 2011Presseurop -
13 June 2011PresseuropRadikal
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10 June 20115El País Madrid
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Immigration
Trouble never ends at Greek-Turkish border
26 May 20112Le Monde Paris -
Romania-Bulgaria
On the road to Schengen
3 May 2011PresseuropRomânia libera -
Tuekey
A ‘mad project’ for Istanbul
28 April 2011PresseuropHürriyet -
Cyprus-Turkey
Tensions bubbling over oil
21 April 20112PresseuropPolitis -
Geopolitics
Bucharest gets foothold in Caucasus
18 April 20111PresseuropRomânia libera -
4 March 20114The Guardian London
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Turkey
No more Mr. Nice Guy
2 March 20113Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
North Africa
Europe's new frontier
1 March 20114La Stampa Turin -
Arab revolutions
Seven reasons to be hopeful
17 February 20111PresseuropDie Zeit -
Employment
Come back to Germany, Pepe
24 January 20112La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Turkey-Greece
From the other side of the wall
17 January 2011Sabah Istanbul -
Asylum Policy
Might as well build a wall
10 January 20111Berliner Zeitung Berlin -
4 January 2011PresseuropKathimerini
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19 November 20103NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam
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Europe / Turkey
Lure of the Bosphorus
17 November 2010Le Monde Paris -
Institutions
EU grows weary of enlargement
10 November 20101Presseurop -
Populism
The fear peddlers hobbling Europe
3 November 20103Libération Paris -
Greece | Turkey
Armed EU to keep out migrant flow
26 October 2010The Guardian London -
Geopolitics
The game change at Deauville
22 October 20101Financial Times London -
Natural Gas
Moscow scores against Brussels again
12 October 2010PresseuropLa Tribune -
EU accession
Turkey's elite is napping
11 October 20102Taraf Istanbul -
Enlargement
One day Turkey will run the EU
28 September 20105Die Presse Vienna -
Union for the Mediterranean
The Med’s adrift
23 September 2010El País Madrid -
Germany
Westerwelle talks Turkey
23 September 20101PresseuropThe Wall Street Journal Europe -
14 September 2010
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Editorial
The Turkish vote
13 September 2010Presseurop -
Turkish referendum
Erdogan buries Atatürk
13 September 20103Zaman Istanbul -
Editorial
Restless holidays
27 August 2010Presseurop -
Enlargement
EU’s backdoor thrown open
16 August 20102Le Figaro Paris -
12 August 20102Foreign Policy România Bucarest
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9 August 2010PresseuropEvenimentul zilei
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5 August 2010PresseuropBerlingske Tidende
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Northern Cyprus
Gambling behind the green line
2 August 20102Adevărul Bucharest -
30 July 2010
Frigates, tanks and submarines: Greece may be teetering on the brink, but the bite of austerity hasn’t come near its military. And Germany is profiting from it. 
The French parliament’s vote which approved a private member’s bill making it a crime to negate the Armenian genocide has provoked an angry response from Ankara. The reaction to the initiative in the French press has been largely negative, while the Turkish media is much more outspoken. 
Buoyed by their country’s political and economic dynamism, more and more Turkish leaders are critical of a European Union that is mired in crisis. However, a Turkish columnist argues that this is not likely to have an impact on Ankara’s desire to join the EU. 
What if Greece leaves the EU? Professor George Prevelakis argues that it is an eventuality that would prompt a new geopolitical upset in the Balkans. As for the EU, it would be forced to acknowledge its inability to “Europeanise” a member state of 30 years standing. 
In opening up the prospect of accession to several candidate countries, the European Commissioner for Enlargement means to put on a show of optimism. But it only reinforces the impression that Europe doesn’t know where it’s going, writes the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. 
In a year’s time, the Republic of Cyprus will take over the rotating presidency of the EU. Between now and then, the Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish government want to obtain an agreement on the division of the island. If not they will suspend talks with Europe. 
Contrary to the EU, wading through a sea of economic troubles, an increasingly confident Turkey goes to the polls on the 12 June. This emerging political and economic power, and not Europe, is fast becoming a model for the nascent democracies of the Middle East. 
Illegal migration into Greece has slowed at the crossing near the Turkish city of Edirne since the Frontex mission, charged by the European Union to monitor its borders, deployed there for four months. But while this gap in the Schengen Zone may be partially plugged, the problem has simply been displaced. A report. 
Despite the Turkish Prime minister's criticisms of the EU, it's clear his country's future lies with the union, argues a Guardian columnist. 
The Turkish prime minister is in Germany parading the self-confidence of his country. Encouraged by a booming economy and increasingly becoming a role model for emerging Arab democracies, Turkey is finding the EU increasingly unnecessary, writes the Frankfurter Rundschau. 
Thirty years ago nobody could have foreseen the process that brought the Warsaw Pact countries into the European Union. Now that the same is happening to Arab nations, the EU must offer them the same opportunity to strengthen democracy: the true prospect of membership. 
In one corner – Germany, in search of skilled workers to feed its recovery. In the other, a Spain in crisis, where young graduates have no future. As in the sixties, a new flow of economic migrants might be making their way north. 
The fence Greece has decided to build on its Turkish border to keep would-be immigrants out will also be yet another obstacle between Turkey and the EU, argues the chief editor of the Istanbul paper Sabah. 
By March, Greece will have built a 12km long anti-immigrant fence along its border with Turkey. But perhaps throwing up a proper wall would have woken the EU to its woeful immigration policy, spectulates a Berliner Zeitung columnist. 
As the EU cracks down on firearms, illegal trafficking in altered alarm guns is booming on the Continent. They’re cheap, easy to alter, impossible to trace – so they’re becoming the criminal’s weapon of choice.
They were born and raised in Germany, France and Belgium. But now, faced with the difficulty of finding work and a career in those countries, more and more European Turks are choosing to move to Istanbul. 
For the European press, the publication of the annual “progress report” on prospective candidates for EU accession, has failed to dispel the general apathy that surrounds the question of enlargement. 
The new far right not only exerts a growing influence on national governments, it is also organising at a European level and could soon weigh heavily on the very workings of the EU, warns French columnist Bernard Guetta. 
The numbers of immigrants seeking passage through the porous Turko-Greek border has quadrupled in the past year. With the Greek government unable to cope, Frontex, Europe’s external borders agency is to deploy armed guards to the region. 
The security summit at Deauville, France, saw the first inklings of a new European geopolitical order. Instead of an EU buttressed by a NATO expanding eastwards comes a "trilateral" Europe, sustaining Turkey's European ambitions and keeping Russia on board. 
Since talks began in 2005, Turkey’s EU membership bid has stalled. For Istanbul daily Taraf, the blame is not only due to reluctant EU states, but should also be shared by a Turkish political elite incapable of acting in the interests of its own people.
Turkey isn’t even a member yet, but deputy prime minister Ali Babacan is already demanding a leading role in Europe for his country. All you have to do is look at Turkey's economic and demographic growth to see it's likely to get what it wants, says Die Presse 
The enthusiasm with which the Union for the Mediterranean was launched two years ago has been steadily waning ever since. The main reason why, says French political philosopher Sami Naïr, is the lack of a serious EU commitment to the region. 
In voting Yes to wide-ranging constitutional reform, the Turkish electorate has demonstrated a wish to modernise the country and seek ever closer links with the EU, even if this was not a part of the campaign agenda. 
Millions of Turks, Serbs, Moldovans, Ukrainians and Macedonians could soon be European citizens, thanks to some fancy footwork by new member states 
The myth of the Polish plumber taking bread from the table of German workers has been and gone. According Foreign Policy Romania, the time has come for workers in Western Europe to migrate to Central Europe, where there are plenty of jobs on offer. 
Under the weight of an international embargo, the Turkish part of Cyprus is trying to develop its own economic resources. The latest initiative: building casinos to attract foreign tourists. 