News

2014

April

Warsaw – Meetings with ODIHR on election monitoring and with the Polish MFA on European enlargement

9 April 2014

Brussels – Visa-free travel for Moldova to become reality on 28 April 2013

8 April 2014

Berlin – ESI at ZIF Election Monitoring Day

4 April 2014

March

Berlin, Warsaw – ESI on the future of election monitoring and European standards

31 March 2014

Brussels – ESI Briefing: The Future of Enlargement

26 March 2014

Berlin – German court grants visa-free access to Turkish businesspeople

26 March 2014

Istanbul – Brainstorming on "Recharging accession policy"

26 March 2014

February

New York – ESI at OSF: "Defending Minimum Human Rights Standards in Europe: Why are we failing? Case studies of Turkey, Azerbaijan, the Balkans and Eastern Europe"

27 February 2014

Warsaw – Roundtable discussion: The Visa Liberalisation Process for Turkey - A Realistic Chance to Improve EU-Turkey Relations

26 February 2014

Berlin – Update: advocacy campaign for a Europe without political prisoners

13 February 2014

Berlin – Public event at Humboldt University: Visa Liberalization - A New Impulse for the Europeanization of Turkey?

12 February 2014

Ankara – Presentation of an ESI proposal for a new generation of progress reports to EU ambassadors and other international and Turkish officials

7 February 2014

Istanbul – Round-Table Conference on Freedom of Religion in Turkey and the EU member states

5 February 2014

January

Rome – ESI visa advisory board meeting with Giuliano Amato

31 January 2014

Zagreb – ESI at the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group to present ideas how to revive the EU enlargement process

30 January 2014

Brussels – ESI at DG Enlargement staff retreat: "A vision for the EU's enlargement policy"

29 January 2014

Istanbul – Film screening and public discussion: "The EU, visa liberalisation and LGBT rights - from Moldova to Turkey"

27 January 2014

Istanbul – Public event at IPC: The German Elections and the Future of EU-Turkey Relations

22 January 2014

Paris – ESI brainstorming on measuring progress and assessing failure in EU accession

21 January 2014

2013

December

Berlin – Oped by Ben Judah and Gerald Knaus in Reuters: "International pressure works on Putin"

19 December 2013