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EU enlargement

  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Europe Express
    Why Serbia’s EU ambitions are on the line as Vučić weighs up Putin invite Premium content

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    Aleksandar Vučić, Serbia’s president
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Europe Express
    Why Norway is edging towards a fresh EU membership bid Premium content

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  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
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    Nato urges EU and Turkey to deepen ties

    Secretary-general Mark Rutte urges European leaders to put aside differences with Ankara to boost security co-operation

    Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte meets Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Iceland
    Iceland bid to join EU should not be driven by Trump fears, says PM

    Kristrún Frostadóttir favours restarting talks for economic reasons and not in reaction to US president’s Arctic sabre-rattling

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  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why enlargement will overshadow the EU-western Balkan summit Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How Mercosur countries will get better treatment under EU’s deforestation rules

    Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milojko Spajić
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Europe Express
    Ukraine, the Balkans and the future of EU enlargement Premium content

    Developments beyond as well as inside Europe threaten one of the bloc’s cornerstone projects

    A mural in 2016 just ahead of Donald Trump’s first presidential term, picturing US president-elect and Russian President Vladimir Putin
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    How contested votes and foreign influence are rocking EU accession Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: why two rival business summits spell trouble for the German government’s unity

    Supporters of Georgia’s opposition parties hold a rally to protest and dispute the result of a recent parliamentary election won by the ruling Georgian Dream party, in Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Georgia’s political chaos could mortally wound its EU ambitions Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: why the wealthy should bear the burden of tackling climate change

    Supporters and members of the ruling Georgian Dream party attend a gathering at the party’s headquarters
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why Georgia’s EU future is on the ballot in historic parliament vote Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Russian migrant-smuggling ring busted

    Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Moldova and Georgia should be free to choose their own paths

    The west must tackle Russia’s interference with democracy in both countries

    Moldovan President and candidate for Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) party Maia Sandu prepares to cast her ballots
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Moldova
    Moldovans back EU accession talks by razor-thin majority

    President Maia Sandu had hoped for stronger support for her policy of closer integration with Europe

    Maia Sandu casts her vote in a ballot box, surrounded by photographers capturing the moment.
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Moldova
    Moldova president condemns ‘assault’ on democracy as EU vote too close to call

    Maia Sandu lashes out at ‘unprecedented’ interference by ‘foreign forces’ as results come in

    Maia Sandu
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Europe Express
    Moldova warns of Russian campaign to derail its EU membership referendum Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: bloc and UK plan the first joint summit post Brexit

    President of Moldova Maia Sandu stands at a lectern in front of supporters
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Europe Express
    How EU membership issues soured a relations-reset lunch with Turkey Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Serbia inks a deal to buy French fighter jets

    Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Ukraine
    Ukraine starts EU accession talks

    Symbolic step comes a decade after Euromaidan protests sought to put country firmly on pro-western path

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking to Charles Michel
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine ready for EU membership talks, Brussels says

    European Commission recommends start of accession negotiations this month but Hungary could cause delays

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Davos
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Serbia
    US and EU ‘too soft’ on Serbia, Kosovo PM says

    Albin Kurti says western capitals should give Belgrade a deadline to adopt sanctions against Russia

    Albin Kurti
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Georgia
    EU to freeze Georgia’s accession bid if it enacts Russia-inspired law

    Tbilisi can still reverse course on controversial ‘foreign agents’ bill

    A female protester holds both an EU and a Georgian flag in front of riot police in Tbilisi on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Tony Barber
    Defiant regional leaders resist the road map to EU membership

    The heads of Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs, North Macedonia and Georgia oppose the steps needed to join the club

  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Georgia
    Georgia adopts Russia-style ‘foreign agents’ law

    Ruling Georgian Dream party presses ahead with bill despite months of protests and warnings from Brussels

    Georgian students stage a march to protest the controversial ‘foreign influence’ bill in Tbilisi
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    An ominous stand-off in Georgia

    Tbilisi government is set to pass a law that could derail the country’s EU hopes

    Georgians attend a rally in Tbilisi against the so-called foreign agents bill
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    North Macedonia’s nationalists set for electoral comeback

    Right-wing VMRO party expected to win in Wednesday elections — a potential setback to country’s EU bid

    People wait at a bus station covered with campaign billboards for the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in Tetovo, North Macedonia May 7, 2024.
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Two decades on, the EU needs a new Big Bang enlargement

    Despite some setbacks, expansion into ex-communist Europe was a historic success

    The Brandenburg Gate stands illuminated with the flag of the European Union
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Europe Express
    How Georgia’s EU dream is being eroded by ‘foreign influence’ law Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: the personal feud at the heart of Croatian coalition talks

    People hold Georgian and European flags as they gather outside the parliament during a demonstration against a draft bill on “foreign influence” in Tbilisi
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Europe Express
    Balkan clouds over EU enlargement Premium content

    Friction between Bulgaria and North Macedonia may be about to take a turn for the worse

    Tens of thousands of people gathered in North Macedonia’s capital Skopje to protest against a French proposal that seeks to end a dispute with Bulgaria that is blocking North Macedonia’s bid to join the EU
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