Without more efforts to inject credibility and energy into the enlargement process, the European Political Community will amount to no more than a fig leaf to cover the EU’s geopolitical struggles
Media mentions – EU enlargement
If the European Union wants to live up to its ambitions in its immediate vicinity, it should invest in the enlargement process rather than create new formats for summit meetings
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
Candidate States – starting with Ukraine – should first of all gain access to European ‘four freedoms’ of movement (i.e., people, goods, services and capital)
Susi Dennison believes that a step-by-step approach to EU integration would be more feasible for candidate countries than a confederal Europe
The EU needs to devise a new approach to its neighbourhood, similar to the way in which it has rapidly enhanced its security and economic policies
Piotr Buras comments on the European Council leaders’ summit
The bilateral relations between Bulgaria and North Macedonia have been misused for domestic messaging of populist politicians in Bulgaria
The Balkans will want the Union to reaffirm its promise that they will not take second place behind Ukraine and Moldova
Marie Dumoulin comments on Ukraine’s candidacy status and its implications for other EU applicants