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EU focuses on enlargement into Balkans after Brexit
new life into the enlargement of the EU, unveiling an overhaul of the process for
main purpose is to keep alive the EU ambition for six western Balkan nations, with
million people. No country has joined the EU since Croatia in 2013, but Albania, Bosnia
also intended to assuage doubts about further EU expansion among member states wearied by the
of law and persistent corruption in some EU countries. It draws heavily on a plan
Good message to our #WesternBalkans friends about EU enlargement   process: Today the @EU_Commission proposes a
Albania (🇲🇰🇦🇱). EU enlargement is a WIN-WIN situation.   #geopoliticalcommission
Potential EU member states have to complete 35 chapters
to match EU standards in numerous areas, from a functioning
France complained that the EU enlargement process lacked credibility and said applicants
EU enlargement had to be “more credible” for
EU member states and those seeking to join
the EU enlargement commissioner, Olivér Várhelyi, told journalists. “It
If countries seeking to join the EU could meet the criteria “then it can
Serbia and Montenegro, which have embarked on EU accession under old rules. Várhelyi said it
his group “fully supports” new impetus to EU enlargement