EU enlargement usually happens in fits and starts. Currently, there is an important new dynamic in the EU’s enlargement policy. Driven by geopolitical forces, the risk is that it will soon come to a stop.
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While each previous addition of new member states has had an effect on the EU’s institutional architecture, the impact of Ukraine’s accession would be particularly large given the sheer size of the country.
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With the EU due to decide whether to open accession negotiations with Ukraine before the year’s end, it is urgent now to inform the political debate about the practical consequences of such a decision.
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Kremlin expected several serious foreign policy disappointments in the Balkan countries at the end of 2020. Russia’s monopoly on the gas market in the Balkans has been shaken, and Belgrade and Pristina move towards normalisation of economic relations.
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On Monday 19 October, Estonia hosted the Three Seas Virtual Summit, marking the end of Estonia’s presidency of the initiative and handing over the reins to Bulgaria.
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On 4 September US president Donald Trump hosted a ceremony at the White House attended by the president of Serbia, Alexander Vucic, and the prime minister of Kosovo, Avdullah Hoti, at which US-brokered agreements were signed on normalising economic relations between the two Balkan countries.
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Erkki Bahovski, Editor-in-Chief of ICDS Diplomaatia magazine noted in the Serbian daily Danas that the joint statement of 13 EU countries will not accelerate the pace of EU integration when it comes to fulfilling the criteria that is expected from the candidate countries, but the plea might have a political meaning.
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On 15-16 November International Republican Institute’s Beacon Project and the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies hosted a roundtables under unifying name “Forgotten Frontiers: Raising awareness on the threat to Central-Eastern Europe and the Balkans”
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On 5 June 2017, Montenegro became the 29th NATO ally. That day it deposited its Instrument of Accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the US State Department in Washington DC.
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