These days, of course, “turf war” is not restricted to the mafia. It may be used, metaphorically speaking, to describe a fight among any mainstream organizations for power, control, or, to use a geopolitical term, “sphere of influence”.
Here are two media examples:
1. A turf war has erupted in Brussels, pitting the EU Commission against member states in a bid for control of the top diplomatic jobs and the influential development aid purse strings.
At the centre of the battle for control is the EU’s nascent External Action Service (EAS) which will eventually boast some 7,000 eurocrats in Brussels and in EU offices worldwide.
Created by the bloc’s Lisbon Treaty of reforms, the huge diplomatic corps will be led by the European Union's first High Representative for foreign and security affairs Catherine Ashton, a British peer.
She uneasily straddles both camps, as a vice-president of the commission and the personal representative of the 27 EU member states.
As the European Union is the world’s biggest development aid donor, this has become a particular battleground in the fight for influence, with the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, unwilling to cede ground to the new external service.
For Green Euro MP Franziska Brantner, who is closely following the discussions, the two bodies must find a way of working closely together because “the EU need coherent strategies on the ground.”
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