include France's now active support for the enlargement of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization …

first aspire to EU membership under missile fire. Much like Moldova and Georgia, it sees its current status of association … with the EU as a precursor to accession. The 28 Feb­ruary application was a call for help from the dreadful war. Initial …, but the EU leaders do not hold forth the prospect of swift accession. This restraint results from the experience that …

Russia’s war against Ukraine has led the EU-27 to grant Kyiv EU-candidate status quickly - even hastily, in the view of … uncertain outcome, takes centre stage. For the EU this means supporting Ukraine militarily as well as financially and helping to … organise international aid for reconstruction. Given this context, we should expect the EU not simply to adhere to the usual …

, who demand greater transparency, and who see treaty amendments as a means to strengthen the EU. Although the Conference …

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 …­ing geopolitical arena, the EU must set priorities that bind the WB6’s outliers to the CFSP. …

Now that the European Council has given the green light to opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova … neither compromises on the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership nor shortcuts along the path to acces­sion. What is more …

The economic and financial crisis of 2008 disrupted the European Union’s (EU) enlarge­ment policy for the Western … Balkans. At least since that time, the region has seen greater involvement by economic actors from non-EU countries such as … intensifying rivalry between the EU on the one hand and Russia and China on the other, the question therefore arises as to how the …

The debate in the European Union (EU) on the expansion of majority decision-making is entering a new round. Germany, in …-making process concerning foreign and security policy, and the prospect of future EU enlargement. Too often, however, this debate is … policy areas. An analysis of the public votes since 2010 compiled in the SWP’s new EU Council Monitor shows that EU member …