Suchergebnisse

The European Green Deal has expanded the climate perspective of the European Union (EU) and put a sustainable and environmentally friendly energy strategy at the centre. For the first time in the history of the EU integration, the EU budget has been designed for prioritizing the climate strategy and conditioned in accordance with the climate targets. Within this context, in this study, the common budget priorities, Green Deal targets and internal/external challenges of the EU are addressed together, aiming to answer the questions to what extent the global climate change is perceived as an emergency by the EU and whether the EU's green transformation approach is sufficient and applicable. The study is conducted in the light of current literature and data on the EU's climate approach and financing instruments in order to answer these questions. The study concludes that although the climate model reflected in the EU's new budget is an important step in combating the climate crisis, difficulties could not be overcome due to the intra-EU dynamics/lack of consensus, and unless a systemic transition in a global sense takes place, the dramatic transformation targeted by the Green Deal would remain discursively assertive, but actionally ambiguous. ; Avrupa Yeşil Mutabakatı, Avrupa Birliği'nin (AB) iklim perspektifini genişletmiş ve sürdürülebilir, çevre dostu bir enerji stratejisini merkeze koymuştur. AB bütçesi de entegrasyon tarihinde ilk kez iklim stratejisine öncelik verecek şekilde tasarlanmış ve iklim hedeflerine göre koşullandırılmıştır. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmada, küresel iklim değişikliğinin AB tarafından ne ölçüde "acil bir durum" olarak algılandığı ve AB'nin yeşil dönüşüm stratejisinin yeterli ve uygulanabilir olup olmadığı sorularına yanıt verebilmek amacıyla, AB'nin ortak bütçe öncelikleri, Yeşil Mutabakat hedefleri ve Birlik içi/dışı zorluklar bir arada ele alınacak ve tartışılacaktır. Bu amaçla, AB'nin iklim yaklaşımı ve finansman araçlarına ilişkin mevcut literatür ve verilerden yararlanılmıştır. Çalışmada, ...

This study aims to understand the role of the leadership styles of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in European Union-Turkey relations by conducting a Leadership Trait Analysis (LTA), which takes into account the leaders' personalities in foreign policy. The article makes use of the verbal records of the two leaders regarding the bilateral relations between their countries and the European Union. The results unveil that the two leaders' personal characteristics bear similarities to a considerable extent; i.e., both leaders are sceptical in inter-personal relations, discernibly intuitive, self-confident and so forth. The study suggests that those personal traits of the leaders which have occasionally outweighed crude rationality have been some of the important factors enabling the sustainability of relations between Turkey and the EU against all odds.