[EWB Interview] Swoboda: Ukraine has revived enlargement, 2030 a reasonable target if EU reforms
Recent months have seen the enlargement seriously returning to the focus of the European Union for the first time in many years. Discussions of the...
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The limits of gradual sectoral integration between the EU and the candidate countries
By Steven Blockmans and Michael Emerson The European Council in June 2022 invited the Commission, the High Representative and the Council ‘to further advance the...
How to implement gradual accession to the EU: Single Market, staged accession or something else?
Calls to accelerate the accession of the candidate countries to the European Union have intensified since the start of the war in Ukraine. The latest...
No More Lullabies: The EU Needs a Renewed Enlargement Process 20 Years After Thessaloniki Promise
By: Strahinja Subotić and Lukáš Macek Twenty years ago, on 21 June 2003, the Thessaloniki Summit heralded a new era in the EU’s relationship with the...
[EWB Interview] Blockmans: The EU has yet to clarify what it means by “gradual integration” for the Western Balkans
Last week’s European Council meetings, as well as the conference with the leaders of the Western Balkans that preceded it, have left the region disappointed...