The Turkish EU question and the case of Greece
by Emiliano Alessandri
18 July 2012
As counterintuitive as it may seem at a time of Turkey's rise and the EU's decline, the so-called New Turkey remains an experiment that requires Europe for its fulfilment - says think-tank
It is tempting to look at the trajectories of Greece and Turkey - two neighbours bound by a history of competition - and conclude that gaining European Union membership hurt Greece as much as not gaining it helped Turkey. Greece entered the European community in 1981 and joined the euro after the Maastricht Treaty. It is now Europe's weakest economy, and it might not be able to keep the common currency. Turkey, on the other hand, has sought and been denied EU membership since the 1960s, but its economy is now more dynamic than most in Europe. And its profile as a regional actor has risen in recent years while the EU's is said to be declining.
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