Turkmenistan reforms need to go further
At a Glance
21-06-2016
The Turkmen government has introduced various reforms since 2008 and has expressed an interest in closer cooperation with the EU. Yet, the May 2016 debate in the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) on the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Turkmenistan highlighted Parliament's dissatisfaction with the reforms. On the grounds of severe human rights concerns, AFET suspended its approval of the PCA until the country makes satisfactory progress.
At a Glance
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- Asia and Oceania
- constitutional revision
- democratisation
- EU relations
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- executive power and public service
- GEOGRAPHY
- human rights
- LAW
- multiparty system
- political framework
- political geography
- political rights
- political situation
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- rights and freedoms
- separation of powers
- sources and branches of the law
- Turkmenistan