In the wake of Croatia's EU accession in mid-2013, it is probable that the Union's enlargement process towards Turkey … candidates' integration within as many EU policy areas as possible prior to accession, so that the stabilising and democratising … effects of the EU's enlargement policy remain intact …

analyse how the current enlargement of the EU into Eastern Europe may favourably affect this process of institutional change …Many transition economies are characterised by a relatively rudimentary institutional framework. Weak legislative …

Even though the six Western Balkan countries (WB6) have close political ties with the EU, their alignment with the EU … aggression in Ukraine. The EU should take a differentiated view of the WB6’s political and security cooperation with external … actors such as Russia, China and Turkey. Within the WB6, the two "outliers" of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Republika …