I think if there were a fast track [for Ukraine], then it would provoke some uproar from the western Balkan countries, who have been in the antechamber of this candidate status for a while now
Cinzia Bianco comments on the current rapprochement between Turkey and Saudi Arabia
Candidate States – starting with Ukraine – should first of all gain access to European ‘four freedoms’ of movement (i.e., people, goods, services and capital)
Ivan Krastev comments on Russia’s loss of soft power due to the invasion of Ukraine
If we always discuss the crisis, once it occurs and start the delivery programme only once the situation in Ukraine is urgent, we will always give the Russians the edge in the war, and they will use i
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