Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The Road to the EU -Through Energy
I don't know how many times I wrote about the importance of the Nabucco Pipeline Project and criticized the reluctance of the Turkish government in the last three years. (Here is one of them.)

Turkey has finally started to play out her hand and the Nabucco Pipeline has recently become one of her trumps in the EU accession.

I believe that Ankara's latest approach paves the way to a faster negotiation not only on the energy chapter, but also on the whole process.

Add to this equation the increasing diplomatic power of Turkey as a Muslim country and you'll see the changing picture:

We will observe a closer relationship between Turkey and the EU, making the full membership a greater possibility in near future.