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

Two excellent questions at the end of a very sensible thread summarising the post-Brexit UK FP debate. My own take at attempting to offer an answer - ahead of the IR is as follow:


1. The two versions have a converging point: a tilt to the Indo-pacific doesn’t preclude a role as a convening power on global issues;
2. On the contrary, it underwrites the credibility for leadership on global issues, by seeking to strike two points:

A. Engaging with a part of the world in which world order and global issues are central to security, prosperity, and - not least - values;
B. Propelling the UK towards a more diversified set of economic, political, and security ties;

3. The tilt towards the Indo-Pacific whilst structurally based on a realist perception of the world, it is also deeply multilateral. Central to it is the notion of a Britain that is a convening power.
4. It is as a result a notion that stands on the ability to renew diplomacy;

5. It puts in relation to this a premium on under-utilised formats such as FPDA, 5Eyes, and indeed the Commonwealth - especially South Pacific islands;
6. It equally puts a premium on exploring new bilateral and multilateral formats. On former, Japan, Australia. On latter, Quad;
This very short article by Jeremy Cliffe is the best thing I have ever read on Brexit and the EU. It pivots on the contrast between Delors’ and Thatcher’s authentically provincial Christian visions and suggests the battle in Britain between the two is not over.


Thatcher: Protestant believer in the totally free market and absolutely sovereign centralised nation state. Delors: Catholic believer in third way personalism, corporatism and federalism. Individualism versus relational love. Heterodoxy versus Orthodoxy.

The article useful gives the lie to the idea that the Catholic vision of the EU has altogether vanished even though it is weakened. Delors wanted a social dimension to the free market and single currency and yet lexiteers laughably insist the EU is more neoliberal than the U.K.!

Subsidiary federalism is a doctrine of democracy and human fraternity. State sovereignty is a doctrine of naked power. It is a face of Antichrist. Leviathan.

Those combined that democracy can only be inside a single state fail to power just how much of private law and evermore so is necessarily international. Thus if political institutions don’t extend over borders there can be no democracy.
A not-so-little thread on how post-Brexit work permit regulations will apply in Scottish football and why it’s, broadly, not a good thing...

1) Work permit calculations are based on the points formula from this site -
https://t.co/sjqx8Df7Zg

As things stand, while this article deals with England, the system applies to Scotland also.

The goal is 15 points and the article shows various ways to get there. Essentially, play regularly internationally or in a top 5 league and you’re in. But read the article because it’s a bit trickier than that.

2) There are elements of this I’d dispute. For example, here’s the banding of leagues and, lower down, it’s an absolute mess - Denmark (ranked 14 in coefficient table) and Serbia (16) banded lower than Croatia (20), Greece (18) and Czechs (19)? It’s wholly random.


I get the point that leagues should be banded, but there doesn’t seem to have been loads of sense applied to how these things are actually banded, rather they’ve just shoved a bunch of leagues together and hoped for the best.

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