Enlargement
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EU-Serbia: Eye test
14 January 201353 Danas Belgrade -
Serbia : Dead and buried?
4 October 201230 Danas Belgrade -
Euromyths (5/10): EU remains a selective club
27 July 20124913 De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdam -
Serbia: Crowned
1 March 201224 Danas Belgrade -
Cartoon: On the threshold
20 January 201292 Le Vif/L’Express Brussels -
Enlargement: Good advice
29 June 201140 Le Vif/L’Express Brussels -
Croatia: Still a long road to Europe
13 June 2011751 Novi List Rijeka -
Enlargement: Tunisia, ideal candidate for the EU
30 March 20111725PresseuropLibération -
North Africa: Europe's new frontier
1 March 20111894 La Stampa Turin -
Borders: Bucharest and Chisinau make border deal
9 November 2010PresseuropTimpul -
NATO: Russia divides the alliance
15 October 201068 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
Enlargement: One day Turkey will run the EU
28 September 20102535 Die Presse Vienna -
Czech Republic: Klaus opt-out called into question
27 September 2010PresseuropLidové noviny -
Editorial: Europe à la carte
20 August 201017Presseurop -
Turkey: Brussels to sweet-talk Ankara
17 June 2010PresseuropHürriyet -
EU-USA: Europe accused of alienating Turkey
10 June 2010PresseuropFinancial Times -
Visions of Europe (3): Europe 2034
1 January 201033 Fokus 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 2009111 Le Monde Paris -
European Parliament: Buzek president, for the first half
7 July 2009PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Cooperation: Balkans to Europe
26 June 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant
The EU already has twenty-seven members, and more are knocking on the door. But isn't the process of enlargement undermining its founding principles and energies? De Groene Amsterdammer continues its series on euromyths.
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...