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...
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A new report highlights Ukraine’s impressive digital transformation but says further reforms, especially in the area of justice, rule of law, the fight...
Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia are showing welcome solidarity with Ukrainians seeking refuge from Russia’s invasion of their home country. Almost...
From a veritable election marathon in Bulgaria to hope for change in Moldova, from threats of Russian aggression in Ukraine to vaccine hesitancy in Bulgaria and Romania...
EU enlargement in the Western Balkans is currently blocked by politics. But that does not mean economic criteria should be neglected.
A new EU-Ukraine agreement focuses on the approximation of policy and regulatory mining frameworks, notably the application of environmental, social and governance (ESG)...
The EU wants to boost cooperation with its eastern partners. But how committed are they to upholding EU values? Belarus last week pulled out of the EU’s Eastern...
Just as it looked as though talks between Serbia and Kosovo would resume as early as next week, a row between the prime ministers of the two countries might have set the...
North Macedonia’s path towards the European Union appeared to have been cleared in 2018 when it agreed a deal with Greece to end a 30-year dispute over the use of...
The European Union has dropped its strongest hint yet that Albania’s accession process could be decoupled from that of North Macedonia. The European Union...
The EU wants Georgia’s political parties to work together. The mixed reaction to its latest report on the implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement...
Serbia’s increasing reliance on China is a health hazard, say MEPs On the day that Serbia began a mass Covid-19 vaccination programme with the Chinese Sinovac jab...