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

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#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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More from Brexit

On this, I think it’s highly unlikely to occur in the timeframe given. For several reasons, I don’t think it’s realistic for Scotland to secede, and then join the EU, in 9 years.

For that, thanks goes to Brexit.

A thread because why not...


Two important dates: March 2016 and January 1st 2021.

Firstly, prior to the 2014 referendum, the Nationalists proposed a date of March 2016 to secede.

Secondly, today - the end completion of Brexit five-and-a-half years after Cameron’s majority in 2015.

Brexit has demonstrated many things, primarily that splitting unions is not easy. The UKs membership of the EU was 47 years and by the end it was not at the heart of the EU. The Union has existed for over 300 as a unitary state.

Dividing a unitary state, like the UK, will not be easy. Frankly, it will make Brexit look simple. Questions of debt, currency, defence, and more will need to be resolved ... something not addressed with Brexit.

Starting with debt. Scotland will end up with its proportionate share of the UKs national debt. It’s not credible to suggest otherwise. Negotiating what is proportionate won’t be easy when both sides disagree.

It’s importance will be seen shortly.

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