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• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Walking on thin ice: Iceland and the EU

  

  8 June 2013 – The outgoing left-wing government decided in January not to take political decisions related to the EU in the run-up to the elections, which were held on 27 April. Now the new eurosceptic government has announced a halt to the country’s EU (...) by Nelly Tsekova

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Is there still faith in Europe among Turks?

  

  6 May 2013 – It happened last 25th January. Recep Tyyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, invited by the Turkish television channel Kanal 2, comes back on the evasive proposals of Vladimir Putin held in July, when the latter had asked him ‘not without (...) by Pauline Sauvage, translated by Sarah Declercq

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Iceland, in or out, please decide

  

  20 January 2013 – It can be said that all the non-EU countries look for a first contact with Brussels for nothing else but self-interest. This is why there are five EU candidates (Iceland, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey), this is why the UK is still (...) by Alessio Pisanò | 2 comments

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Georgia: the dawn of Eurasia, where everything is changing

  

  21 November 2012 – Georgia is a small country, very proud of its traditions. It often had to stand up against powerful and ambitious neighbours. Throughout the centuries it has been disputed by Turks, Persians, Russians, while Mikheil Saak’ashvili, the aggressive (...) by Ernesto Gallo, Giovanni Biava, Translated by Martina Spriano

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Turkey-EU Relations at Critical Crossroad

  

  9 September 2012 – No other country aspired membership to the European Union for such a long time as Turkey. It’s been twenty-five years since EU-Turkey negotiations began. During this time, the EU was able to exert much positive influence on the country. The (...) by Florian Grünwald, Sarah Dejaegher

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Serbia continues its route towards European integration

  

  20 July 2012 – Serbia wants to join the European Union (EU). Despite the recent presidential election of the former ultra-nationalist, Tomislav Nikolic, Serbia remains on a pro-EU path. Although many actors in the EU have a negative image of Serbia because of (...) by Johannes Langer | 2 comments

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Eurovision 2012: Pro-democracy campaigners arrested in Baku as song contest begins

  

  23 May 2012 – Eurovision 2012 kicks off in Baku, Azerbaijan today and the song contest’s glittering final will be held on Saturday night. With an anticipated audience of 300 million people, Azerbaijani authorities are working hard to promote a positive image (...) by Emily Hoquee

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Does Iceland represent the real issues of the European Union?

  

  29 April 2012 – Iceland, as the rest of the Western world, entered a mad race for financialisation between 2003 and 2007. Its financial dimension, which was completely out of proportion, exploded in 2008 soon after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The national (...) by Pascal Malosse

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  The European Wave

  

  28 March 2012 – During the last weeks we have witnessed how Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus since 20 July 1994, has been empowered as a result of the political situation in Moscow caused by Vladimir Putin’s dubious victory in the last Russian (...) by Pedro Cristobal Bocos

• Enlargement & Neighbours

  Serbia’s flirt with EU is turning into a full-blown relationship

  

  25 March 2012 – After three years of difficult, tough negotiations and painful concessions from Serbia, the EU has finally granted it formal EU candidate country status. However, this is only the first major step towards Serbia’s full EU membership as there are (...) by Andrea Petkovic

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