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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      How France and Germany think the EU can adapt to new members Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Italy’s expanding migrant detention centres

      Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Balkans’ frustration mounts over Ukraine’s fast-track to EU membership

      Brussels has handled Kyiv’s accession bid with record speed since Russia’s full-scale invasion last year

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks via video link during the Bled Strategic Forum 2022 in Bled, Slovenia
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Ukrainian politics
      Ukraine open to minority rights concessions in quest to join EU

      Kyiv prepared to change rules on languages used in schools to unlock accession talks

      Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Olga Stefanishyna
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why the G20’s Ukraine compromise might not be all bad for Europe Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: EBRD calls for anti-corruption reforms in EU accession countries

      Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz at the G20 in New Delhi
    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU must be ready to accept new members by 2030, Michel to propose Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Romania’s prime minister pleads for budget wriggle-room from Brussels

      Charles Michel, president of the European Council
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Free LunchMartin Sandbu
      Universalism, hypocrisy and European identity Premium content

      Remedy for the flaws of ‘Europeanness’ is to have more of it

      Pedestrians on a street in  Frankfurt, Germany
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Tony Barber
      Ukraine’s EU road is littered with obstacles

      Enlargement into eastern and south-eastern Europe will be impossible without far-reaching reform of the bloc

      Illustration of prime ministers of south-eastern European countries (Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and Ukraine), eaching holding their country’s flag and being buffetted as a blue bus with the EU stars on it speeds past
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      EU urged to seek ‘constructive engagement’ with Turkey

      Russia’s war in Ukraine has forced rethink of bloc’s attitude to Ankara and other neighbours

    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      Erdogan’s move to reheat EU accession is a challenge to Brussels Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: How the issue of migration can make or break European governments

      Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson shake hands next to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Nato
      Erdoğan agrees to support Sweden’s Nato bid

      Stoltenberg says Turkey’s president will put accession to his parliament following meetings at military alliance summit

      Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, shakes hands with Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson, right, as Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg looks on
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why the EU parliament needed ‘Qatargate’ to reform Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Sweden’s last-ditch appeal to Turkey over Nato membership

      President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola holds a press conference during a European Council Summit, at the EU headquarters in Brussels
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
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      Serb hardliners make a comeback in northern Kosovo

      Political stand-off increases Balkans security risks as relations between Pristina and Belgrade deteriorate

      Serbs in Kosovo demonstrate
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Ukraine’s accession and EU enlargement loom over Spain’s presidency Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: The EU’s potential for carbon capture

      Urusula von der Leyen and Pedro Sánchez
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU enlargement on the menu as leaders meet at breakfast Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Hungary and Poland block agreement on migration

      Olaf Sholz and Emmanuel Macron
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      EU should not ‘lower the bar’ to take in Ukraine, says Denmark

      Foreign minister warns bloc risks ‘importing instability’ if it relaxes standards on democracy and corruption

      Lars Løkke Rasmussen
    • Saturday, 10 June, 2023
      Europe Express
      Growing pains of EU enlargement Premium content

      The accession of Ukraine and other eastern countries is a geopolitical imperative but not easily achieved

      Ethnic Albanians protest in the south of the ethnically divided city Mitrovica, Kosovo, June 2023. Tensions flared after ethnic Albanian mayors took offices in four towns following elections boycotted by Serbians
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Putin has revived the EU’s dreams of enlargement

      Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has finally convinced officials to offer Balkan membership applicants more than honeyed words

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Brussels to extend EU single market benefits to western Balkans

      European Commission president offers to increase funding for countries waiting to join the bloc

      People gather during a protest in Zvečan, Kosovo
    • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
      Montenegro
      Montenegro’s young guard aims to speed up EU accession

      New leadership seeks to pass reforms and capitalise on fresh focus on Balkan region amid Ukraine war

      Montenegro’s president-elect, Jakov Milatović, with outgoing president Milo Đukanović
    • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
      Kosovo
      Kosovo and Serbia agree to EU plan to normalise relations

      Western pressure for the two sides to resolve longstanding differences has intensified with the war in Ukraine

      EU high representative Josep Borrell, centre,  holds talks with Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, right, in Ohrid
    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Montenegro
      Montenegro president dissolves parliament and calls early election

      Nato country is seeking EU membership but parliamentary poll result on June 11 could determine whether it continues to look to the west

      Montenegro’s president Milo Đukanović announces a date for new parliamentary elections at a news conference in Podgorica
    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Georgia
      Violent clashes erupt in Georgia over Russia-modelled media law

      NGOs and press organisations receiving funding from abroad would be labelled ‘foreign agents’

      Riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets of Tbilisi
    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      InterviewUkraine
      Ukraine tells EU leaders to avoid ‘negative’ accession messaging

      Kyiv is delivering ‘very fast’ on political reforms, says deputy prime minister

      Olha Stefanishyna
    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      Global InsightSam Fleming
      Ukraine wrongfoots reluctant EU states with accession reforms

      Brussels says Kyiv is moving rapidly on change despite punishing wartime conditions

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Ukraine needs a credible path to EU membership

      It is important for both sides that Kyiv meets the same standards as other applicants

      Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre, with Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen in Kyiv. The EU is a bastion of freedom precisely because of the commitments placed on its members
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