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Kosovo's admission to the Council of Europe (CoE) is not on the agenda of the meeting of its Committee of Ministers, which is set to be held on 16 and 17 May. This will likely lead to delays in Pristina's admission to the pan-European human rights body. In the meantime, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said that the procedure for creating a new administrative body for places where ethnic Serbs are a majority has emerged as an "unacceptable precondition" to Kosovo's membership as CoE's 48th member state. Kurti’s move to reject the precondition has dissatisfied France, Germany and Italy, wh...
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While North Macedonia marked a historic milestone on Wednesday by electing its first female president, the ruling centre-left suffered an unprecedented loss in both presidential and parliamentary polls. Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, a 70-year-old law professor supported by the nationalist conservatives, won with nearly 65% of the vote in the presidential runoff. Reflecting on her win, Siljanovska-Davkova emphasised the importance of this milestone for women and pledged to advocate for reform alongside them. Meanwhile, Stevo Pendarovski conceded defeat after securing just over 29% of the vote. S...
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Twenty years after the European Union's 2004 "Big Bang" enlargement, we have seen it all: perceptions and reflections have been morphing from enthusiasm to fatigue, from hope to fear, from aspiration to disappointment. With the wisdom of the past two decades and seven different waves of enlargement since the beginning of the European project, it would probably be appropriate to celebrate this "big bang" anniversary with facts and figures to dispel emotional debates ahead of the EU elections in June. The three-year-long war in Ukraine has pushed the issue of enlargement to the forefront of the ...
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Serbia's path to EU membership now depends on its silent consent for Kosovo's assent to international organisations, such as the UN and Council of Europe. EU foreign affairs ministers gathering in Luxemburg on 22 April agreed to amend a key part of the document concerning Serbia's negotiations to join the EU, known as Chapter 35. The change means Brussels will freeze Serbia's accession process into the bloc if it doesn’t implement an agreement on normalising its relationship with Kosovo. The main condition for Serbia to comply with is that it must stop obstructing Kosovo's efforts to join key ...
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Forty-five per cent of voters across the EU are in favour of Ukraine joining the bloc, while 35% are openly against it, and another 20% are in two minds about it, the Euronews/Ipsos poll carried out among 26,000 respondents across 18 member states has found. The war-torn country and neighbouring Moldova put in their bid to become EU members within weeks of Russia launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February 2024 and acquired candidate status in record time. EU leaders have since also agreed to open negotiations talks. Before the war, the prospect of Ukraine joining the bloc wa...
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€700 million — roughly the value of 10 new Swedish Gripen fighter jets — is a lot of money. That’s the amount the EU spent from 2014 to 2020 on reforms in the Western Balkans, with little to show for it. With a new proposal now under consideration by the European Parliament — for even more funding — we simply can’t afford a repeat. EU taxpayers deserve better. That’s why I have insisted on strong guarantees for new Western Balkans funding, including the ability to stop or even recoup payments if agreed conditions aren’t being met. EU enlargement is in principle good for Europe and vital to the...
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