ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to capture partially relevant aspects of the perspectives by arguing that the exercise of sovereignty is mediated through state-society interaction that generates different policy outcomes depending on the transparency/divisibility of the policy issue and the level of societal assertiveness. The European Union (EU) must be prepared to act as an effective anchor to the policy reform in Turkey by absorbing part of the adjustment costs. The relatively transparent/divisible issues concerning the rights of existing Turkish workers proved compatible with the risk-minimising strategy - as the analytical framework underpinning anchor/credibility dilemma would suggest. Policy-making in the area of intra-EU movement of people is generally integrationist and the policy stance is liberal/inclusionist. Free movement between the EU and Turkey could not be introduced despite the fact that Article 36 of the AP contained explicit provisions to that effect. The delegation of competence to the EU in the area of intra-EU free movement was both feasible and desirable for the member states.
