After the European Parliament elections, a new political cycle has started in Brussels. It has already led to some immediate impacts on some member states, e.g. with snap parliamentary elections in France. New EU dynamics are emerging, including challenges on how to prepare for internal reforms and the ‘gradual integration’ of enlargement counties. In this new political context, what will be the new set of headwinds for EU enlargement? How are some of the leading accession countries progressing and navigating in the new environment? And what are their expectations from the incoming EU Commission, other EU institutions, and the member states?
  • Christian Danielsson
  • Milan Nič
  • Miroslav Lajčák
  • Vessela Tcherneva
  • Zoran Dimitrovski