{"id":727896,"date":"2026-01-29T05:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/727896\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:34:23","slug":"why-admitting-the-western-balkan-states-would-be-financially-advantageous-for-the-european-union-table-briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/727896\/","title":{"rendered":"Why admitting the Western Balkan states would be financially advantageous for the European Union \u2022 Table.Briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-base md:text-xl font-semibold text-gray-700 leading-relaxed\">\n                A study by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation finds that the cost of admitting the Western Balkan states to the European Union would be negligible for the Union\u2019s budget. At the same time, accession would deliver a substantial economic boost to the six candidate countries.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769664861_61_stephan-israel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" class=\"w-full h-full rounded-full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                            29. January 2026\n                        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Recipients need a subscription to read\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769664862_296_stephan-israel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" class=\"w-full h-full rounded-full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                        29. January 2026\n                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                Recipients need a subscription to read\n            <\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/p-068662_00-08_01-original-140096.jpg\" alt=\"EU-Western Balkans Summit December 2025\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" class=\"w-full h-36 md:h-auto object-cover rounded-lg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Family photo from the previous EU-Western Balkans summit in December 2025. (European Commission \/ Dati Bendo)    <\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-12 text-sm text-gray-600\">\n            Last updated: 29. January 2026\n        <\/p>\n<p>            Share article:<\/p>\n<p>\n                Recipients need a subscription to read\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A study by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation finds that the cost of admitting the Western Balkan states to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,10247,299,5187,1699,216551,216552,13494],"class_list":{"0":"post-727896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-eu-enlargement","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-konrad-adenauer-foundation","14":"tag-mfr","15":"tag-western-balkans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115976763290424058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727896","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=727896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}