The Criteria for Turkey’s Accession to the EU: Accomplishments and Challenges

Abstract

In this work, the author gives her view of Turkey’s accomplishments and the challenges it is facing in its process of acceding to the EU. To this end, in the first place, she offers a general overview of Turkey’s position in the process and the adoption of the criteria for accession.Next she makes a brief reference to the political criteria, to focus finally on the economic criteria as well as on the EU acquis, given that these are the principle topics of the negotiations.

Keywords

• EU
• Turkey
• regional integration
• negotiations