Enlargement
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20 January 2012Le Vif/L’Express Brussels
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29 June 2011Le Vif/L’Express Brussels
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Croatia
Still a long road to Europe
13 June 20111Novi List Rijeka -
Enlargement
Tunisia, ideal candidate for the EU
30 March 20115PresseuropLibération -
North Africa
Europe's new frontier
1 March 20114La Stampa Turin -
9 November 2010PresseuropTimpul
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15 October 2010Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw
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Enlargement
One day Turkey will run the EU
28 September 20105Die Presse Vienna -
Czech Republic
Klaus opt-out called into question
27 September 2010PresseuropLidové noviny -
Editorial
Europe à la carte
20 August 2010Presseurop -
17 June 2010PresseuropHürriyet
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10 June 2010PresseuropFinancial Times
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Visions of Europe (3)
Europe 2034
1 January 2010Fokus Stockholm -
Geopolitics
The new old order
20 October 2009The Independent London -
European Commission
The three next big things
22 September 2009El País Madrid -
Enlargement
Spain needs its thinking cap
22 July 2009PresseuropEl País -
European Parliament
A new Jerzy for Strasbourg
14 July 2009Presseurop -
Immigration
Wilkommen to Romania
14 July 20091Le Monde Paris -
European Parliament
Buzek president, for the first half
7 July 2009PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Cooperation
Balkans to Europe
26 June 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant
Croatia got the green light to join the European Union on July 1, 2013, it was announced on June 10. But several events, the latest of which is the scattered confrontations during Split’s Gay Pride Day this weekend, highlight that the road to Europe remains long, notes Boris Pavelic in Croatian daily Novi List. 
Thirty years ago nobody could have foreseen the process that brought the Warsaw Pact countries into the European Union. Now that the same is happening to Arab nations, the EU must offer them the same opportunity to strengthen democracy: the true prospect of membership. 
Letting Russia join NATO — the new big idea of the alliance's strategists — might make sense to some, but to others who still fear the bear's claws, it is pure folly. 
Turkey isn’t even a member yet, but deputy prime minister Ali Babacan is already demanding a leading role in Europe for his country. All you have to do is look at Turkey's economic and demographic growth to see it's likely to get what it wants, says Die Presse 
Swedish essayist Kjell Albin Abrahamsson imagines that in 25 years every European country will be in the EU – except Turkey. Armed with a common energy policy and, at long last, a single voice – the EU will take the helm in international diplomacy. 
With America increasingly disengaged from European affairs, and Russian influence tentative at most, the Independent wonders whether in this new age of alignments Europe might not be reverting to the order of old. 
The re-election of José Manuel Barroso represents an opportunity to “complete” Europe over the next five years and make it a real global player. According to political analyst José Ignacio Torreblanca, the president's focus should be on three major issues: internal cohesion, enlargement and the European Neighbour Policy. 
With economic crisis, climate change, immigration and enlargement on the agenda, the European parliament has a heavy schedule for the next five years. Under the leadership of a new president hailing for the first time from Eastern Europe, MEPs, however, can expect a turbulent time ahead, warns the European press. 
Since becoming a member of the EU, Romania has attracted waves of African, Indian, Afghan and Iraqi immigrants. Hailing from Somalia, Kasim thought he was on his way to Germany when unscrupulous traffickers dumped him deep in the heart of the Romanian countryside...