European Union

Aspiration meets realism in Albania, where eventual EU accession requires renewed political direction.

Turkey’s aspirations for EU accession, often cast as the want for market and visa liberalisation, also uphold an ongoing determination for equality and justice.

The EU’s visions of its enlargement are only one side of the coin. Here is the other.

Green MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield reflects on institutional reforms, enlargement, and a different “European way of life”.

Edouard Gaudot offers a way out of Europe’s geopolitical irrelevance.

Vasyl Cherepanyn says that the war in Ukraine forces Europe to look in the mirror.

Philippa Nuttall examines the major achievements and uncertain future of the EU’s climate agenda.

The response to recent crises shows that the European project is simultaneously advancing and fraying. In the context of a newly found appetite for EU enlargement and with crucial elections just months away, progressives need to outline what kind of Europe they are striving for. From the Green European Journal’s winter 2023 print edition.

Media coverage frames Bulgaria’s green transition as an imposition from Brussels that will damage the country’s coal-intensive economy.

While conservatives are still dominant in eastern Europe, most illiberal parties are struggling. Why is it important for the future of the EU?