Category: Enlargement
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Western Balkans Edge Closer With A New Associate Tier
Tivat: When EU leaders gathered on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast on 5 June 2026, the choice…
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Hungary’s Veto Falls And Ukraine’s EU Path Finally Opens
Luxembourg: After more than two years of paralysis, Ukraine and Moldova opened the first cluster…
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Montenegro Pulls Ahead As The Bloc’s Likeliest Next Member State
Podgorica: Of all the candidates queued at Europe’s door, Montenegro now looks the one most…
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Montenegro And Albania Pull Ahead In A Two-Track Balkans Race
Tivat: The most consequential thing about the EU-Western Balkans summit held in this Montenegrin port…
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Ukraine And Moldova Cross The First Real Threshold To EU Entry
The European Union has done something this month that for nearly two years looked politically…
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Albania Enters The Final Stretch Of Its EU Membership Talks
Tirana: In the Albanian capital, where accession to the European Union has been a national…
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Montenegro Crosses The Halfway Mark In Its Race To Join By 2028
Podgorica: The smallest of the Western Balkan candidates has quietly become the bloc’s most plausible…
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Ukraine And Moldova Clear Europe’s First Accession Hurdle
Brussels: For the first time since they were handed candidate status, Ukraine and Moldova have…
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Montenegro Edges Toward 2028 Membership As EU Revives Enlargement
Tivat: In the Montenegrin coastal town of Tivat, where superyachts now crowd a marina built…
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EU Accession Talks Finally Open For Ukraine, Moldova
The EU accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova cleared their biggest hurdle on 12 June…
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The Western Balkans Get Roaming And Cash Before Membership
Tivat: The eighth EU-Western Balkans Summit, held on 5 June on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast, produced…
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Albania Reaches The Final Stretch Of Its Long Walk Into Europe
Tirana: For most of the past two decades, talk of European Union enlargement in the…
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Montenegro Edges Ahead As Europe Reopens Its Enlargement Promise
Tivat: On the Montenegrin coast this month, European leaders gathered for a summit that was…
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Montenegro Is Now Europe’s Likeliest Next Member State
Podgorica: For the first time in a generation of stalled promises, a Western Balkan capital…
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Ukraine And Moldova Finally Open Their First Accession Cluster
After years of declarations and delays, the enlargement file is about to produce something concrete.…
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Hungary Drops Its Veto And Ukraine’s EU Path Suddenly Clears
Luxembourg: For two years the road into the European Union ran straight into a single…
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Ukraine and Moldova Edge Toward First Accession Cluster as Veto Lifts
Membership talks that had been frozen by a single national veto are moving again, and…
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Ukraine’s Long Road To Brussels Finally Turns A Corner
Kyiv: For seventeen months a single capital held Ukraine’s European ambitions hostage, and then, almost…
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Montenegro Edges Closer As Ministers Close Two More Chapters
Podgorica: The small Adriatic republic that has spent more than a decade inching through the…
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Gradual Membership Is Quietly Becoming The Balkan Norm
Tivat: The EU and Western Balkans summit held in Montenegro in early June produced the…
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Montenegro Edges Closer To Becoming The Bloc’s 28th Member
Tivat: For a process often accused of moving at glacial speed, EU enlargement suddenly looks…
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Montenegro Inches Closer To Becoming The Bloc’s Newest Member
Podgorica: For the first time in years the question of who joins the European Union…
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Balkan Capitals Leave Tivat With A Faster Road Into The Union
For the first time in years, a Western Balkans summit produced something more concrete than…
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Western Balkans Leaders Leave Tivat Summit With A Faster Timeline
Tivat: For years the European Union’s promise to the Western Balkans had the quality of…