Quickly bringing in the Western Balkan candidates, Ukraine and Moldova to counter Russia or China poses many dilemmas for the ...

Should all the countries of the Western Balkans join the EU at the same time, as Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has ...

Does the European Union — 27 states, 450 million people, politically fractious even in the best of times — need to expand ...

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow European Union leaders reaffirming their commitment to bringing the Western Balkans countries ...

Nathalie Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Europe’s futures fellow at IWM, Vienna and a part-time professor at the European University Institute. Her latest book, “A Green and ...

Enlargement is the process whereby states join the European Union, after they have fulfilled a set of political and economic conditions. Any European state which respects EU democratic values and is ...

Hungary is blocking the European Union's annual document proposing the enlargement process due to Budapest's rejection of negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU. — Ukrinform.

1 May 2004 was a historic milestone marking the unification of Europe after decades of division. On that day, 10 countries joined the EU: Czechia, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, ...

The EU should offer better interim rewards for progress — such as earlier market access, sectoral integration and deeper participation in EU programs — while imposing clear penalties for backsliding.