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As we continue to recap our work for the #VIADUCT_EU project over the years, take a look below at our thirteen VIADUCT Newsletters!

These are where we kept our network and you up to date of all our activities

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 Our first newsletter kicked off the #VIADUCT_EU project with an editorial from our project leaders @FundaTekin17 of @IEP_Berlin and Wolfgang Wessels of @UniCologne

➡️ https://t.co/CGAfy4Iixr

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In this early newsletter, @tomas_weiss wrote a fascinating piece on relations between the EU and Turkey after PESCO

➡️ https://t.co/hTSBVwyTRZ

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Check out Meltem Müftüler Baç's editorial here on the future of the EU-Turkey partnership in the early days of the #VIADUCT_EU project

➡️ https://t.co/QIpaupSqtM

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"Arranging EU-Turkey cooperation in the era of transactional leadership" was the title of the @FIIA_fi Senior Research Fellow @ToniAlaranta's editorial in this #VIADUCT_EU Newsletter

➡️ https://t.co/0EywTlirOT

/5
#Migration remains a political hot potato: in this editorial, Angeliki Dimitriadi from @eliamepgr tackles the question of how this issue factors into EU-Turkey relations

➡️ https://t.co/QfTUkx3By3

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But what about energy relations? In this editorial from April 2019, @JohannesPollak and @ElinaBru analyse the complications which arise in EU-Turkey energy relations

➡️ https://t.co/glaDgvepPX

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"Which future for the EU-Turkey relationship? Domestic politics and external differentiation"

Frank Schimmelfennig from @ETH_en tackles this question, which is also of interest to those of you interested in #DifferentiatedIntegration and #InDivEU

➡️ https://t.co/yPTFzbVMv5

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As we moved into the Autumn of 2019, #Erdogan began threatening border policy changes which would risk another #RefugeeCrisis - check out the #VIADUCT_EU analysis by Jean Marcou from @SciencesPo38

➡️ https://t.co/Oa25b5VPYu

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Dr. Julie Smith contributed a fascinating editorial to this December 2019 #VIADUCT_EU Newsletter

➡️ https://t.co/lgd1r1eZDA

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"The rollercoaster ride of EU-Turkey relations has mostly been a product of the norms versus interests dilemma”

➡️ https://t.co/bG9DROahBO

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Meltem Müftüler-Baç returned to the #VIADUCT_EU Newsletter in May of 2020 to discuss: "Turbulence in Turkey’s relations with the EU: Drifting apart in a world of increased uncertainty and refugee flows"

➡️ https://t.co/X80jmvu4M7

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READ: "EU Faces Historic Dilemma vis-á-vis the EU-Turkey Relationship", by @manisth from @eliamepgr

➡️ https://t.co/B1rZ3yF6Rb

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Of course in our final #VIADUCT_EU Newsletter release at the end of 2020, @FundaTekin17 of @IEP_Berlin and Wolfgang Wessels of @UniCologne, in their roles in the #VIADUCT_EU leadership, returned to the editorial to recap our project's work

➡️ https://t.co/LLikQLXxhQ

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