Abstract:

Welcome to this Conference, "The Future of the European Union and Turkey", organized by the European Community Institute of Marmara University. Marmara University highly values research into the European Union and comprises a European Studies Institute, which was the first institution to be established in Turkey dedicated to European Studies. Marmara University continues to support such academic efforts with the goal of contributing to Turkey's membership process with the European Union. Today, I feel great pleasure and honour to be able to contribute to such a meeting where academics from Turkey and various European countries, bureaucrats and experts have gathered to discuss the future of the European Union and its possible effects on Turkey.

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