The Next ‘Big Bang’: How the EU Can Fast-Track Enlargement Amid Geopolitical Tensions – European Council on Foreign Relations
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by Francesco Valendino Call it "Big Bang 2.0" as well, but it seems more like a blank bang. L'Ecfrà è initiala che fa tanto think tank ma che pensa più a armorare gli interessati atlantici" (it has given birth to yet another genius: let's enlarge the European Union to Ukraine and Moldova without waiting for those boring, annoying, unpathetic requirements that we have imposed on all the others for decades. Reforms? Rule of law? Fight against corr…
The next ‘big bang’: How the EU can fast-track enlargement amid geopolitical tensions – European Council on Foreign Relations
Cover image: picture alliance / Anadolu | Dursun Aydemir When European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen talked of a “geopolitical commission” in 2019, her intent was closer to direction of policy travel rather than an urgent and detailed plan aimed at creating a security union with complete defence capabilities. But geopolitical imperatives are now driving the EU’s development, including in defence and securing economic leverage. The EU…
The Republic of Moldova went through one of the most difficult years of its European journey in 2025, but managed to record the greatest progress among all candidate states for accession to the European Union, according to the European Commission's Enlargement Report. Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Cristina Gherasimov, claims that 2025 was a "difficult" year, but decisive for the credibility of the Republic of Moldova in its rel…
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