Twenty years ago this week, eight CEE countries joined the EU. According to analysis by the Polish Economic Institute, the GDP per capita of the eight countries in the...
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To mark the 20th anniversary of eight CEE countries joining the EU, Emerging Europe speaks with PwC’s Agnieszka Gajewska, uniquely placed to offer insight on what has...
The EU’s poor record in the Western Balkans over the past decade does not bode well for further enlargement. As we remember the success of 2004, it’s time to...
Increasingly, the Western Balkans are ready for the EU. But is the EU ready for the Western Balkans?
The reforms required of EU candidate states to guarantee accession are only half of the equation to a sustainably enlarged bloc. With the possible addition of as many as...
In her State of the Union speech on September 13, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen renewed calls for Ukraine and Moldova’s EU integration, and...
EU Council President Charles Michel this week offered membership hopefuls plenty of sweet talk, but little substance. The bakery at the Park Hotel in the Slovenian...
The European Commission has recommended EU candidate status for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and visa-free access for citizens of Kosovo. Will the European Council agree? The...
Undeterred by its rejection by the the three other Western Balkans states, Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia have agreed to speed up implementation of their Open Balkans...
EU enlargement in the Western Balkans is currently blocked by politics. But that does not mean economic criteria should be neglected.
The economic benefits of EU accession are many and significant, but not all are irreversible: something that eurosceptics in Central and Eastern Europe would do well to...
Since 2020, Bulgaria has been vetoing the start of North Macedonia’s EU accession talks. Albania, a country with strong and widespread support for EU integration...
Montenegro, which unilaterally adopted the euro in 2002, might – somewhat ironically – have to introduce its own currency before it can join the European...
