Category: Enlargement
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Montenegro Closed Eighteen Chapters and Still Counts Fifteen
Podgorica: On 14 July Montenegro provisionally closed competition policy and the customs union, taking its…
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Bosnia Stands to Lose 374 Million Before It Spends a Cent
Brčko: Freight crosses the Sava here under a customs regime that Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed…
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Georgia’s Candidate Status Now Survives on Paper and Little Else
Kutaisi: Budget carriers leave this western Georgian city for a dozen European destinations, and the…
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Albania Accession Talks Close Three Chapters With Ten in Sight
Durrës: For the first time since talks opened, Albania has closed negotiating chapters rather than…
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Iceland Votes and Brussels Still Has No Answer on Fisheries
Höfn: Trawler crews working out of this southeastern harbour land cod and langoustine under quotas…
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Fifteen Chapters Stand Between Montenegro and 2028
Fifteen negotiating chapters still separate Montenegro from the end of its accession talks, and the…
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Hungary Still Holds Two Ukraine Clusters Ahead of a September Vote
Chișinău: Moldovan officials spent the summer preparing for a negotiation that has not started. Their…
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Bosnia Has Four Months Left to Save 374 Million in EU Money
Banja Luka: Officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s second city discuss European money the way people…
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Iceland Votes Friday on Whether to Restart Its Accession Talks
Reykjavík: Voters go to the polls on 29 August to answer a question Iceland last…
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Four Accession Conferences in One Day Still Leave 2028 in Doubt
Diplomacy occasionally produces a day designed to be photographed. On 14 July the Union held…
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Reform Money for the Balkans Moves Slower Than the Clock
Skopje: Six governments were promised six billion euros to reform their way toward membership, and…
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Hungary Blocked Two Negotiating Clusters and Ukraine Lost Summer
Chisinau: Hungary refused on 22 July 2026 to approve the screening reports needed to open…
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Montenegro Wants Its EU Accession Finished Before 2027 Begins
Podgorica: Montenegro’s government now counts EU accession in months rather than decades. At the 28th…
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The Iceland Referendum Asks One Question and Voters Hear Another
Reykjavík: Icelanders vote on 29 August on a sentence that sounds procedural and is not.…
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Montenegro Has Eighteen Chapters Closed and Fifteen Still Open
Podgorica: Four accession conferences ran on a single day, 14 July 2026, which has not…
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Accession Talks Stall Again and September 1 Is the Test
Two candidate countries reach the end of August with their accession talks stuck at a…
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Iceland Votes on August 29 and Enlargement Optics Hang on It
Reykjavík: Icelanders vote on 29 August 2026 on whether to resume European Union accession negotiations,…
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Three Capitals Took the Money While Three Others Fell Behind
Bar: The container terminal at Montenegro’s main port handles a fraction of the traffic that…
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Accession Clusters Opened Fast and the Calendar Went Quiet
Accession clusters opened at a pace nobody in the enlargement bureaucracy expected this year, and…
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Sarajevo Lost a Tenth of Its EU Money and Can Still Earn It Back
Sarajevo: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s indicative allocation under the Reform and Growth Facility now stands at…
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Ukraine Facility Adds 8.3 Billion and Thirty Reform Conditions
Kyiv: The Council of the European Union amended the Ukraine Facility and its Ukraine Plan…
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Montenegro Closed Eighteen Chapters and the Hard Ones Remain
Podgorica: Montenegro has provisionally closed eighteen negotiating chapters, and for the first time the arithmetic…
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Three Balkan States Take Most of the EU Reform Money
Skopje: Money under the European Union’s Growth Plan for the Western Balkans now moves at…
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Will Iceland Reopen the Accession File It Closed in 2013
Reykjavík: On 29 August voters answer a single question. Should negotiations on Iceland’s membership in…