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  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Bulgaria vote buoys prospect of EU expansion into western Balkans

    MPs move to lift veto on accession talks but North Macedonia could reject conditions brokered by France

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Europe Express
    Europe’s inflation and economic ills to dominate second day of summit Premium content

    EU leaders reconvene for talks that are expected to be almost exclusively grim in tone

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    FT live news
    Live news updates from June 24: US Supreme Court overturns Roe vs Wade, Ukrainian forces to retreat from Severodonetsk
  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    EU leaders grant Ukraine and Moldova candidate member status

    Kyiv welcomes symbolic but conditional move by summit

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Bulgarian government ousted in blow to EU enlargement hopes

    PM Petkov removed in confidence vote that threatens deal to lift veto on North Macedonia accession talks

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Georgia
    Georgians turn against government after being put in EU accession slow lane

    Demonstrators blame pro-Kremlin leaders for thwarting membership aspirations

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Europe Express
    EU leaders’ visit raises expectations for Ukraine candidate status Premium content

    Macron, Scholz and Draghi are visiting Kyiv today

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Why Ukraine’s EU candidacy should be approved

    A shake-up of the bloc’s enlargement process and decision-making will be needed

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Europe Express
    EU lawmakers rebel against green label for gas and nuclear Premium content

    European parliament could reject addition to taxonomy at July meeting

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    Europe Express
    Crunch time for Ukraine’s EU candidate status Premium content

    EU commissioners meet today to discuss how to phrase opinion

  • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
    Rosa Balfour
    Europe must not allow the momentum for expansion to slip

    But the experience of North Macedonia does not bode well for Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine

  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Europe Express
    Why countries are at odds over Ukraine’s EU candidate status Premium content

    Commission expected to make a recommendation next week

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Europe Express
    Ukraine war gathers support for Balkans’ EU membership bids Premium content

    Berlin throws its weight behind unblocking stalled enlargement process

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Interview
    Austria says EU must consider radical treaty change over Ukraine

    Foreign minister calls for bloc to consider granting neighbouring states rapid access to ‘parts of the common market’

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Serbia’s president Vucic rejects sanctions on Russia

    Newly re-elected leader defends China missile deal and says he ‘guarantees’ peace in Balkans

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    European Union
    Draghi endorses Ukraine’s bid for EU membership

    Italian PM backs Kyiv’s efforts just weeks after bloc’s leaders collectively declined to support application

  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
    Georgia and Moldova apply to join EU

    Diplomats voice caution about complex process as Ukraine war triggers wave of applications for membership

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine confronts cold reality in quest for EU membership

    Kyiv unlikely to be given special treatment to bypass lengthy and complex accession process

  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Latvia’s president calls on EU to embrace ‘moment in history’ and admit Ukraine

    Egils Levits wants Brussels to offer Kyiv candidate status in wake of Russia’s invasion

  • Monday, 17 January, 2022
    Albania PM says western Balkans should ‘never give up’ on EU dream

    Edi Rama aims dig at bloc’s politicians for being too influenced by nationalist pressures

  • Monday, 1 November, 2021
    North Macedonia
    North Macedonia PM resigns after landslide defeat in local elections

    Voters punish Zoran Zaev for deadlocked EU-accession talks and slow economic progress

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    EU agrees €30bn western Balkans package but no date to join bloc

    Enlargement remains contentious with some of the 27 members vetoing accession talks

  • Monday, 4 October, 2021
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia divided over ban on genocide denial as EU fights for influence

    Serbs boycott Balkan nation’s government while Russia challenges UN’s role in international oversight

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    Slovenia urges EU to admit western Balkan states by 2030

    Bloc divided over need for expansion and speed at which nations should be allowed in

  • Wednesday, 28 July, 2021
    Balkan trio push ‘mini-Schengen’ as they hit out at EU membership delay

    Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia to launch own border-free travel and business zone amid frustration with Brussels

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