Berlin, January 2013

INVITATION

The Alfred von Oppenheim-Centre for European Policy Studies of the DGAP cordially invites you to a Brussels Briefing on Monday, February 11, 2013, 12:00 to 2:00 pm Avoiding a Divorce: A Virtual EU Membership for Turkey Turkey’s prospects of becoming a member of the European Union are more uncertain than ever. Having been forced to spend their residual political capital on combating the Eurozone crisis, European leaders have little enthusiasm for championing the unpopular EU-enlargement project. At the same time, the EU is no longer a central topic of discussion in Turkish policy cycles, nor is it at the top of the Turkish foreign policy agenda. This has proved detrimental to Ankara’s democratic progress – a situation that is unsatisfactory for Brussels, too. As it loses credibility in membership negotiations, the EU is losing the ability to engage Ankara constructively and Turkey’s interest in the Union is waning. In the context of the Brussels Briefings the cooling off of EU-Turkey relations as well as proposals for breaking this stalemate will be discussed and critically reflected. Can Ankara and Brussels develop a framework for reinvigorating the relationship, or is it time for the two to go their separate ways? How can the engagement on both sides be sustained despite the unlikelihood of reaching consensus about Turkish accession in the foreseeable future? In which areas can common interests be identified and cooperation deepened, outside of the blocked enlargement negotiations in order to inject new life into the membership process? And, finally, what kind of Union are we talking about anyway as a result of the crisis? Speakers: Sinan Ülgen Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Europe, Brussels Almut Möller Head of Programme, Alfred von Oppenheim-Centre for European Policy Studies, DGAP The Brussels Briefing will be moderated by Dr. Sylke Tempel , editor-in-Chief of Internationale Politik, DGAP. Before the discussion we welcome you to a small reception (11:30-12:00) at the DGAP, Rauchstraße 17, 10787 . Please confirm your attendance with Yulia Loeva, either by email or by fax ([email protected], 030/254 231-91).

Sincerely,

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider Almut Möller Otto Wolff-Direktor Programmleiterin Forschungsinstitut der DGAP Alfred von Oppenheim-Zentrum

Sinan Ülgen Visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe, Brussels

Sinan Ülgen is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the implications of Turkish foreign policy for Europe and the United States, particularly with regard to Turkey’s regional stance and its role in nuclear, energy, and climate issues. He is a founding partner of Istanbul Economics, a Turkish consultancy that specializes in public and regulatory affairs, and chairman of the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), an independent think tank in Istanbul. Ülgen has served in the Turkish Foreign Service in several capacities: in Ankara at the United Nations desk (1990–1992); in Brussels at the Turkish Permanent Delegation to the European Union (1992– 1996); and at the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli (1996). He is a regular contributor to Turkish dailies and his opinion pieces have been published in the International Herald Tribune , Financial Times , Wall Street Journal , European Voice , and Le Figaro . He studied at the University of Virginia and holds a M.A. from the College of Europe.

Almut Möller Head of Programme of the Alfred von Oppenheim-Centre for European Policy Studies, DGAP . Almut Möller has been head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) since 2010. Her research focuses on fundamental questions of EU policy such as its institutional development and enlargement, neighbourhood policy, and Germany’s European and foreign policy. From 2008 to 2010 she lived and worked as a freelance political analyst in London. Between 2002 and 2008 she was a researcher at the Centre for Applied Policy Research (CAP) in , where she initially worked in the European Union Reform and and Enlargement Program and since 2007 as head of the Center’s Euro-Mediterranean Program. Almut Möller is a non-resident fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) and an associate fellow at the Austria Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES). She holds an M.A. in political science from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (2002). She also studied at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and at the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences-Po) in Aix-en-Provence.

Dr. Sylke Tempel Editor-in-Chief of Internationale Politik, DGAP’s foreign policy journal Dr. Sylke Tempel is editor-in-chief of Internationale Politik , published by the German Council on Foreign Relations, lecturer at the Stanford Study Center Berlin and visiting professor at Stanford University. She studied Political Science,

Jewish Studies and History at the Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität in Munich and received her Ph.D. from the University of Armed Forces, Munich. Among her recent publications are: . Reise durch ein altes, neues Land (Israel, Journey through an Old New Land“), (2008) and Freya von Moltke. A Biography (2011).

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