Now it is clearer: Turkey does not intend to give the green light to Sweden’s entry into NATO. Ankara’s veto at the beginning of the process concerned the protection Stockholm gave to Kurdish activists whom the Turkish justice deems terrorists, now the issue is the country’s accession to the European Union. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, […]
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Georgia approaches Russia: thousands of people protest the government
Georgia is moving away from the European Union and stepping into Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The Tsibilisi parliament for the first time passed legislation to introduce a registry of organizations considered “agents of foreign influence”; this is a controversial formula already used by Moscow and some allied countries. alleged espionage, internal opposition, media and civil society […]
11-point agreement to avoid conflict between Serbia and Kosovo
The official agreement has not been signed yet, but the 11-point agreement reached between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Brussels yesterday is undoubtedly a step taken to end the tension between the two countries and prevent a new tension. Military conflict on the brink of the EU. Speaking on […]
Process Requirements for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union Zelensky demanded that accession negotiations be started by the end of 2023. But the road to Brussels is riddled with “artificial barriers” and “bureaucratic prisons”
A year after the invasion of Russia, Ukraine still has not won the war. But certainly president Volodymyr Zelensky can boast of having brought home a historic result: his country has now embarked on a process of integration into the European Union that seems irreversible and has a good chance of happening faster than anticipated […]
‘Jets will win the war and quick engagement’: Zelensky gets EU Parliament support
He received a long standing ovation from the assistants and officials, as never before seen in the European Parliament. Then the less unusual of the members of the EU Commission, including Members of the European Parliament and President Ursula von der Leyen. This is how Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Brussels began. The first stop will […]
Zelensky’s European tour: planes, new funds (including Russian funds) and EU membership
First, a surprise visit to the UK to thank the country that “reached out” to Ukraine “while the world has yet to figure out how to react”. Then the “world” understood as the European Union: a trip to Paris to meet the leaders of France and Germany, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz. And finally, the […]
EU’s half-open door to Ukraine
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and the majority of EU executives arrived in Kiev to “show that the EU supports Ukraine more firmly than ever before”. Today is the largest European Union delegation to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian occupation: a total of 16 commissioners will arrive for the EU summit, […]
EU withdraws Ukraine’s membership: “First reforms on justice and corruption”
The most optimistic was Denys Shmyhal, the prime minister of Ukraine, who said he was convinced that Ukraine’s accession to the European Union could happen within two years. President Volodymyr Zelensky was less hasty, saying he expected “good news” on the integration process ahead of the EU-Ukraine summit in Kiev on 3 February. But both […]