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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Treat Bosnia on par with Ukraine over accession talks, Austria tells EU

      Foreign minister warns Brussels not to look at Balkans ‘with a magnifying glass’ and at Kyiv ‘with rose-tinted glasses’

      Alexander Schallenberg
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Sinan Ulgen
      Europe needs a new framework for Turkey

      There are four basic principles that can foster good relations between the two entities

      People in Ankara wave EU and Turkish flags. An embedding of Turkey in the EU’s strategic plan could contribute to a revitalised western alliance
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      Tony Barber
      Serbia is a poor fit for EU enlargement plans

      Democratic backsliding and a foreign policy close to Russia cast doubt on whether Belgrade really wants to join the club

      Aleksandar Vucic sitting at his desk looking down at documents
    • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU and Russia square up over Georgia Premium content

      Brussels recommends candidate status for a south Caucasus state where Moscow’s influence remains strong

      Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili addresses a rally in Tbilisi after the European Commission announced its recommendation that member states should grant Georgia candidate status
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      How Bosnia got an EU membership boost with a little help from its friends Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: The EU’s capital markets are losing competitiveness, industry warns

    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics
      European Commission to endorse membership talks with Ukraine

      EU leaders will decide in December on whether to begin negotiations after assessing Kyiv’s progress on reforms

      European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. centre, with Olha Stefanishyna, right, Ukraine’s deputy PM in charge of EU and Nato integration, and Oleksandr Pertsovsky, head of the passenger transportation department at Ukrainian Railways
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why G7 ministers will struggle to find consensus on Israel-Hamas conflict Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Moldova’s ruling party scores mixed result in local elections clouded by Russian meddling

      People hold a rally to protest against Israel’s attack on Gaza near the Israeli embassy in Tokyo
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      How von der Leyen managed Ukraine’s EU membership hopes Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Why South Korea questioned the EU’s stance on state aid

      Ursula von der Leyen and Volodomyr Zelenskyy in front of the Ukraine and EU falgs
    • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Von der Leyen vows to keep on funding Ukraine

      European commission president backs country’s EU membership ambition during visit to Kyiv

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Germany’s top diplomat thinks a bigger EU is a better EU Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: Storm Ciarán’s fatal journey across Europe

      German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock delivers a speech at the beginning of a Ministerial Conference on the issues of EU enlargement, EU reforms and the EU’s global capacity at the Federal Foreign Office
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Ursula von der Leyen needs the Balkans to believe in EU membership Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Giorgia Meloni’s awkward phone prank

      Ursula von der Leyen attends a meeting with members of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency in Sarajevo
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Tony Barber
      History casts a long shadow over EU’s enlargement plans

      Disputes over national identities and minorities are emerging as an obstacle to the bloc’s expansion in eastern Europe

      A depiction of Alexander the Great in the Battle of Issus
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
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      Estonia ready to lose funding if Ukraine joins EU, prime minister says

      Kaja Kallas urges bloc to start work on overhauling budget to prepare for potential enlargement

      Kaja Kallas
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      Europe Express
      Migration to overshadow EU enlargement at leaders’ summit Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: why the solar industry is warning against tariffs on Chinese goods

      Young migrants are seen walking in the reception center for migrants (Hotspot) on the small island of Lampedusa, south of Sicily
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Martin Sandbu
      A multi-speed Europe holds the key to EU enlargement

      A Franco-German report proposes four overlapping circles from an inner core to the new European Political Community

      The European Commission building in Brussels. The power of the purse is strong: if countries paying most of the bills see such reforms as worthwhile, it will be difficult to be a holdout
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      EU faces ‘divisive’ reforms to integrate with Ukraine, Barroso warns

      European Commission ex-president José Manuel Barroso warns against ‘risky business’ of treaty change

      José Manuel Barroso
    • 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
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      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
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