EU Opens New Accession Talks for Albania, Montenegro, Moldova and Ukraine
The move opens or closes negotiating tracks for four candidates, while officials say membership could still be years away.
- On Tuesday, Albania, Montenegro, Moldova, and Ukraine advanced their European Union membership quests during intergovernmental conferences in Brussels, marking one of the bloc's most significant enlargement moves in more than 20 years.
- Voters in Hungary ejected Viktor Orb after 16 years in April, removing the key obstacle who previously exploited unanimity rules requiring all 27 member countries to agree on opening or closing negotiating chapters.
- Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos called the event a 'Super Tuesday for EU enlargement.' Ukraine and Moldova opened a second cluster on negotiations focused on foreign relations and security, while Albania and Montenegro closed tracks on science and customs.
- Ukraine views membership as a 'security guarantee' for a stable future once the war ends. Enlargement Commissioner Kos stated the 'future security architecture of our continent is unimaginable without Ukraine,' underscoring the geopolitical stakes.
- Despite this progress, candidates must complete negotiations in 35 policy areas before joining, and officials acknowledge it could still be years. Nine countries are officially candidates, though accession talks for Georgia and Turkey remain on hold.
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Brussels held an unprecedented day with four intergovernmental conferences to push forward accession negotiations in candidate countries
The European Union considers the day of July 14 a turning point for its future composition. Commissioner Marta Kos has already defined it as the "Super Tuesday" of enlargement. The EU is torn apart and immobilized by the lack of unity when it comes to making fundamental decisions for its own development and, in some cases, its own survival, [...] The article "EU" accelerates on the accession of Ukraine and the Balkans: "Today is the Super Tuesda…
“Super Tuesday”: EU Council Opens New Accession Chapters for Ukraine and Three Others
EU affairs ministers in the EU Council have approved new chapters of accession negotiations—so-called clusters—for four candidate countries (including Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, and Montenegro) on July 14th, which has been branded by Brussels as the “Super Tuesday” of the EU’s enlargement drive. Ukraine and Moldova unlocked Cluster 6, titled “External Relations,” which is comprised of two separate negotiation chapters in which Brussels expects t…
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