Our #VIADUCT_EU Guest Lecture: "The EU-Turkey Statement: how its policy formulation informs the future prospects of the deal" is now 🔴LIVE!

Join us on #Zoom or alternatively you can follow some highlights here!

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Ieva Koreivaite from @VU_LT is currently welcoming us to the #VIADUCT_EU Guest Lecture and presenting today's speaker: @MCVinciguerra from @Cambridge_Uni

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.@MCVinciguerra's lecture focusses on the EU-Turkey Statement: she will put the Statement into context, assess the impact of the #RefugeeCrisis, give an overview of the Statement's formulation, and finally assess the Statement's current status and future prospects

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"The EU-Turkey Statement is often analysed as a key element of the EU's response to the #RefugeeCrisis, but it is also consistent with decades of relations with Turkey as a candidate country"

- @MCVinciguerra from @Cambridge_Uni

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"Between 2012-2016, more than 2 million irregular migrants at Europe's borders. Generally speaking, the EU's Agenda on Migration provided for two phases of action: provisional measures, and preventative measures for the future"

- @MCVinciguerra from @Cambridge_Uni

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"In the context of border closures, you can understand the EU's need for comprehensive policy on the worsening #RefugeeCrisis"

- @MCVinciguerra from @Cambridge_Uni

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"In 2015, the association council met for the first time after a three year break"

- @MCVinciguerra from @Cambridge_Uni takes a look into the renewal of EU-Turkey relations in response to the #RefugeeCrisis

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"The @EU_Commission's inability to deliver visible outcomes in Turkey's areas of interest, coupled with an intensification of domestic contestation in 🇩🇪 and 🇳🇱, brought the @EUCouncil back to the heart of negotiations"

- @MCVinciguerra from @Cambridge_Uni

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"There needs to be a continued dialogue between the EU and Turkey, at all levels of government. This will reinstate the EU's commitment to move forward in EU-Turkey relations, and gradually reinstate mutual cooperation with Turkey"

- @MCVinciguerra from @Cambridge_Uni

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.@MCVinciguerra from @Cambridge_Uni has finished her keynote presentation, and we now move forward into a Q&A session

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On that note, our #VIADUCT_EU Guest Lecture by @Cambridge_Uni's @MCVinciguerra on the topic "The EU-Turkey Statement: How its Policy Formulation Informs the Future Prospects of the Deal" is at an end!

Thanks to everyone who attended!

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