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The refugee deal could be the endpoint of Turkey's EU history

Fabrizio Tassinari in the Huffington Post

While Turkey's accession process to the EU is at a virtual dead-end, the controversial one year old refugee deal might provide the final shape of a strategic partnership between Turkey and Europe.

In this commentary in theHuffington Post, Senior Researcher and coordinator for the Foreign Policy unit, Fabrizio Tassinari, points out that given Germany's key role in the refugee crisis, it is striking how the deal resembles proposals made by Angela Merkel's CDU party of a privileged partnership.

The article is published as part of the Huffington Post's WorldPost partnership with the Berggruen Institute of Governance. It was translated in theSpanish editionof the Huffington Post and picked up in follow-up media appearances in the American magazineChristian Science Monitorand in the Italian magazineL'Espresso.

The End of Turkey's European History
The Huffington Post, 2017-03-21T01:00:00