The seminar titled “The Effects of the Green Deal on the Customs Union” was organized by the European Union Education, Research, and Application Center and by the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Burçak Müge Vural, Director of the European Studies Application and Research Center at Dokuz Eylül University, participated in the online seminar as the speaker.

In the seminar moderated by ABEAUM Center Director Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pınar Çağlayan, Prof. Dr. Burçak Müge Vural stated that negative factors such as food crisis, inflation, rising commodity prices, energy crisis and environmental pollution in today's world in relation to economic rationality have led to the necessity of considering environmental protection in economic growth. Stating that the European Union, which carries out policies on the basis of market economy, has started to have a holistic environmental policy especially since the 1990s, Vural underlined that the EU carries out its environmental policy with regulatory, market-based, informative and voluntary instruments.

Emphasizing that the main components of the green deal, the framework of which was established by the EU in order to minimize the negative effects of climate change, are reducing carbon dependency, overcoming ecological constraint and increasing the resilience of developing countries, Vural stated that the reflection of the green deal on Turkiye-EU relations in terms of the Customs Union is also linked to these components and is multifaceted.

The seminar ended after answering questions.