Future of EU

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.

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

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.

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.

Spain’s Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz on the fundamental choices Europe faces. Interview by Rosa Martínez Rodríguez.

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.