"EU Borders - The end of the myth of eternal enlargement: Turkey-Ukraine, two countries which will not join the EU / The Balkans, last enlargement of the next 20 years / Russia, the key to solve the EU-Turkey problem
Abstract GEAB N°6 (June 16, 2006)
The increasing difficulties of the process of Turkey entering the European Union contrasts with the progressive entry “piece by piece” of former Yugoslavia (1) (Slovenia is already a member and Croatia is starting its integration process while proposals to integrate the other Balkan countries multiply).
This contrast is all the more striking if one compares the evolution in public opinion with regard to the EU in the various countries concerned. In Turkey, the image of the EU and prospect for integration have been deteriorating regularly since the end of 2004 (the symbolic date of the EU “green light” to negotiations); whereas in the countries of former Yugoslavia the opposite trend can be seen."
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