Letter from Brussels: Is a Hopeful Breeze Blowing Through the EU’s ‘Waiting Room’?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/03/12/letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room/bi/

Letter from Brussels: Is a Hopeful Breeze Blowing Through the EU’s ‘Waiting Room’?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/03/12/letter-from-brussels-is-a-hopeful-breeze-blowing-through-the-eus-waiting-room/

EU enlargement: What’s in it for European businesses?

A larger EU Single Market could increase trade opportunities, strengthen supply chains and expand the pool of skilled workers available to European companies.

EU enlargement commissioner Marta Kos has urged businesses to invest in candidate countries, while survey findings from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise reveal that many European companies remain hesitant.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260309-eu-enlargement-whats-in-it-for-european-businesses?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#EUEnlargement #MartaKos #Business #Investment

The criteria that a country must meet to join the EU are called the "Copenhagen Criteria".
Which of the following aspects are NOT part of the Copenhagen criteria?

#EPSOprep #EPSO #EUEnlargement #EU

I'm working on some deep dives into #EU Policy topics, for my personal accounts but also for work. Which policy area would you like to know more about?
If you have good questions, also leave 'em in the comments.

#EPSO #EPSOprep #EUGeneralKnowledge #EUEnlargement

EU enlargement in the Western Balkans: All together now?

Should all the countries of the Western Balkans join the EU at the same time, as Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has suggested?

What are the pros and cons? And how do the countries in question feel about it?

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251217-eu-enlargement-in-the-western-balkans-all-together-now?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#WesternBalkans #Balkans #EU #AleksandarVucic #Vucic #Albania #BosniaAndHerzegovina #Croatia #Kosovo #Montenegro #NorthMacedonia #Serbia #EUEnlargement

Friday, December 12, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/friday-december-12-2025/

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115589040644325032

THREAD: @ChrisMayLA6 rightly questions UK #LabourParty's "mistaken expectation of continued entitlement" wrt the #EU.🇪🇺

From my Irish perspective, that #entitlement is in most of the UK's 🇬🇧 pro-Europeans as strikingly as the #Brexiteers' mendacity. Domestically, their entitlement imposed #EUenlargement & centralisation through 6 major steps without referendum to ensure public buy-in. No public campaign to win their argument, allowing #eurosceptics to build unchallenged. #democraticDeficit

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Orbán’s veto on Ukraine’s EU bid provides ‘specific support’ to Putin, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for providing “specific support” to Russian President Vladimir…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #EUenlargement #EuropeanUnion #Russia'sinvasionofUkraine #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/230406/

Could EU enlargement be the cure for Europe’s ageing crisis?

The EU’s population is expected to peak at around 453 million in 2026, before beginning a gradual decline.

By 2100, if migration remains at zero, Eurostat projects that the EU’s population will have fallen by 34%, significantly affecting the labour force.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251104-could-eu-enlargement-be-the-cure-for-europes-ageing-crisis?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Ageing #EUEnlargement #EU #LabourForce #Population #Demographics