{"id":141025,"date":"2025-05-29T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:18:09","slug":"gradual-integration-lasting-impact-the-future-of-eu-enlargement-%e2%8b%86-visegrad-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141025\/","title":{"rendered":"Gradual Integration, Lasting Impact? The Future of EU Enlargement \u22c6 Visegrad Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is EU enlargement still a political priority \u2013 or a fading ambition? Saskia Hollander reflects on the waning public enthusiasm in some Western capitals, the strategic importance of candidate countries and the investment mindset needed for Europe\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three years after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine rekindled momentum for EU enlargement, is the political will still there? In this interview, Jan Farfa\u0142 speaks with Saskia Hollander \u2013 Senior Research Fellow at the EU &amp; Global Affairs Unit at Clingendael \u2013 about geopolitical urgency, rule of law standards and how a gradual integration model could help reconcile competing pressures within the Union.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visegradinsight.eu\/online-event-polands-presidential-election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"256\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Banners-23-1024x256.jpg\" data- class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33939 lazyload\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/visegradinsight.eu\/author\/j-farfal\/\" class=\"nickname\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan\u00a0Farfa\u0142<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"position\">Europe Enlargement Fellow<\/p>\n<p class=\"nickname\">Deputy Editor in Chief at Res Publica Nowa. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford and Research Assistant to Timothy Garton Ash, co-founder of the Club Alpbach Poland, Committee Representative for the Security Track at the European Forum Alpbach, and visiting fellow at IWM &#8211; Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. Researcher in the project \u2018Europe in a Changing World&#8217;, at the European Studies Center at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tNewsletter<\/p>\n<p>Weekly updates with our latest articles and the editorial commentary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is EU enlargement still a political priority \u2013 or a fading ambition? Saskia Hollander reflects on the waning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6561,2000,299,5187,1699,657,13494],"class_list":{"0":"post-141025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-enlargement","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-western-balkans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114590378646488622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}