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'I propose we immediately start the process of ending Turkey's status as a candidate EU member state' (Photo: Reuters)

Turkey's smart game: keeping the EU divided

After a little over a year in Brussels as an MEP, and closely following the EU's foreign affairs, it astonishes me how ineffective the European Union leverages its power on the world stage.

At this very moment, a mid-sized power named Turkey is punching above its weight by interfering in multiple conflicts in the Mediterranean region in a bid to defend its geopolitical interests and we are letting it happen right under our noses.

With a military presence in Libya and Syria, Turk...

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Malik Azmani is a Dutch MEP on the parliament's foreign affairs committe, and first vice-president of Renew Europe.

'I propose we immediately start the process of ending Turkey's status as a candidate EU member state' (Photo: Reuters)

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Malik Azmani is a Dutch MEP on the parliament's foreign affairs committe, and first vice-president of Renew Europe.

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