The next few months are the last opportunity for Turkey to take steps that could influence the european Commissionu0092s recommendation in October on whether the Copenhagen political criteria have been met, and therefore whether to open accession negotiations, with the European Council due to...

The European Union now faces an existential dilemma in the apparent choice to be made between over-extending the enlargement process to the point of destroying its own governability, versus denying one of its founding values to be open to all European democracies and possibly generating negative...

The EC's Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) is conceived to support, under exceptional circumstances and on an ad hoc basis, macroeconomic stabilisation and balance of payments of accession of candidate states and countries covered by the European neighbourhood policy. The study examines the EU's...