Redefining EU membership: from enlargement to belonging
Recent contributions to this series have shown how enlargement has returned to the centre of European geopolitics. Vera Tika argues…
How economic governance makes or breaks EU enlargement
Comparing Central and Eastern Europe with the Western Balkans, Visnja Vukov argues that the EU’s governance of economic integration is a decisive lever of transformation. When…
European Council and its role in EU enlargement
Rising geopolitical pressures, including an ongoing war in its immediate neighbourhood, have thrust EU enlargement back onto the…
Differentiated membership and the EU’s enlargement dilemma
The EU is caught in a dilemma between its geopolitical urge to enlarge and the high institutional standards…