Valdai Club

The EU-Turkey deal is set to expire in a year or two upon the completion of the EU financial assistance transfer; however, the revamping of the deal would require resuming membership talks or, at least, upgrading the customs union

To achieve its climate objective in the neighbourhood, the EU will need to do more than announcing grand strategies and pouring money into neighbourhing countries. In light of possible local resistance and systemic competition with other external players, the EU needs to make its zero-emission goal a shared one and work to enhance its conditionality through appealing and credible incentives and consistency between its words and deeds, writes Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti, Research Fellow, at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI).