Heather Grabbe is director of the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels and director of EU affairs. She was senior advisor to Olli Rehn when he was Commissioner for enlargement. She previously wrote on EU-Turkey relations while deputy director of the Centre for European Reform.
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Published in: HomeThe long reach of Orbán’s referendum experimentOrbán’s anti-Brussels rhetoric never contains any hint of Huxit; he would have too much to lose. But it affects the community of law that underpins the EU.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The deep roots of Macedonia's current turmoil – and the way forwardThe country must avoid just replacing the driver in the seat of a captured state machinery - by increasing inclusion and pluralism in governance. This will be impossible without EU and NATO assistance.
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Published in: HomeTurkey's twitter generation is its European futureThe protests might even help to revive Turkey's moribund accession process to the EU.
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Published in: HomeEuropeans’ love-hate relationship with interdependenceEuropeans both love and hate globalisation. They benefit from mobility across cosmopolitan Europe and there can be no return to the sovereign nation-state. But they want to limit their liabilities both to other EU countries and the global economy.