21.02.2024
Europe on the Ballot: Long Live the Lead Candidates!

Pronounced dead upon Ursula von der Leyen’s election as Commission president in 2019, the “Spitzenkandidaten” process is alive and well.

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23.01.2024
Southern Europe: Conservative Resurgence or Key to a Progressive EU? 

Progressives in southern Europe need to find unity in fragmentation, following the Spanish example.

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04.12.2023
Brexit Undone: A Future History of Britain

In a dispatch from 2050, Molly Scott Cato reports that the UK’s divorce from the EU did not last long.

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04.12.2023
Moldova: Belonging and Development 

Cultural and political belonging in Moldova is complex and affects how the EU is viewed. Could placing the idea of Europe at the heart of the country’s development agenda create a positive consensus going forward? 

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04.12.2023
Kosovo: Enthusiasm Without Naïveté 

Forged in the depths of systematic oppression, the Kosovars’ staunch support for the EU reflects their desire for democracy. The bloc should stop using it as a bargaining chip.

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04.12.2023
Albania: Longstanding European Dream  

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

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04.12.2023
Turkey: A Free Market of Values 

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.

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04.12.2023
Serbia: A Measure of Relevance 

Strategic migration control and ongoing negotiations over Kosovo complicate Serbian perceptions of EU accession.

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04.12.2023
North Macedonia: Fragile Europe

Before revealing itself in its vastness and fragility, Europe evoked to poet Nikola Madžirov nothing but the sweetness of chocolate from a factory in Skopje.

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04.12.2023
Meanings of Europe

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

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