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Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr New challenging issues : Strategies for the EC-Turkey Customs Union Patrick A. Messerlin Groupe d’Economie Mondiale (GEM) Yeditepe University & Economic Development Foundation Istanbul 14-15 May 2010
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Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr Overview Assessing the situation: the global environment. Assessing the situation: the TC-Turkey Customs Union (ECTCU). Options for strategies (for the next 5 years).
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Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr Global environment (1/3) Trade: back on track. Trade regime: resilient WTO, but uncertainty on the Doha Round. Macroeconomic situations: worrisome in the EC. Global governance: diminishing vs. emerging giant syndromes. Domestic governance: “tyranny of tiny majorities”
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Global environment (2/3) Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr
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Global environment (3/3) Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr
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ECTCU environment: the EC (1/2) The EC needs a “drastic review” of the following assumptions: The bigger, the better. Internal Market and the acquis communautaire. The euro as “the” discipline, regulatory reforms. Institutional structure. Time to value our neighbors.
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Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr ECTCU environment: the EC (2/2) Does the acquis delivers?
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Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr ECTCU Environment: Turkey The functioning of the ECTCU The “Global Europe” strategy and Turkey Turkey and the core emerging economies
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Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr Options for strategies: the EC Would the EC be an active partner vis-à- vis Turkey? Doubtful. Need for a “drastic review”. Deep shocks from the financial crisis. Crisis concentrated on Mediterranean EC Member States. Volatile Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia = > no Ostpolitk. Focus on Balkans: small but very difficult.
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Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr Options for strategies: Turkey (1/2) Are stricter international rules the solution? Doubtful at time of tectonic shifts in international relations. The “best EC Member State” policy Industrial goods: Turkish trade policy (tariffs, AD) Bilaterals: expand in Balkans; “consolidate” the other existing bilaterals in one FTA; develop the maximum tariff approach with ECOTA.
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Options for strategies: Turkey (2/2) Farm and food products (FTA option) Farm products. Food products and fisheries. Services: “mutual evaluation” (Services Directive) Use the acquis for reviewing its own laws: take the pro-competitive provisions, screen between norm-setting provisions (cost- benefit analysis). A plurilateral approach? An approach beneficial for the EC itself. Groupe d'Economie Mondiale http://gem.sciences-po.fr
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