EU integration

CEPS: Why the EU’s enlargement is actually an unsung and successful catch-up story

by Michael Emerson The pattern of macroeconomic catch-up seen in the EU’s enlargement process is a remarkably positive story – if largely unsung and still...

CEPS: With EU enlargement, it’s two big steps forward for Ukraine, but a more dubious one for the Western Balkans

by Michael Emerson, originally published HERE. The EU’s enlargement process has been the constant talk of the town since the European Commission delivered its annual Enlargement...

Andrius Kubilius: Why Is Ukraine’s European Union Membership Necessary For The European Union Itself?

The decision of the European Council last December to open accession negotiations for Ukraine’ and Moldova’ European Union membership is of particular historical significance. These...

SCEEUS: The 2023 Enlargement Package

By Michael Emerson and Steven Blockmans. The Commission’s 2023 ‘Enlargement Package’, published on 8 November, is the most important for many years. At the top...

Ukrainian Centre for European Policy: Recommendations for Belgium’s Presidency in the Council of the European Union

Ukrainian expectations Belgium will take over the presidency in the Council of the EU during the period when Ukraine may embark on accession negotiations with...

Ukrainian Centre for European Policy: Towards European Integration: A Study of Existing Projects, Stakeholder Needs, and Resource Optimization in Ukraine

Since February 2022, Ukraine’s relationship with the EU has seen rapid changed after it applied for EU membership and was granted candidacy status in June...

CEPS: The Potential Impact of Ukrainian Accession on the EU’s Budget

By Michael Emerson.  If hypothetically Ukraine was already today a full EU Member State, it could be benefitting from around EUR 18-19 billion of receipts from the EU budget, net of...

Implementation progress of European Commission recommendations

Ukraine’s Government Office for Coordination on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration: Implementation progress of European Commission recommendations Originally published on the European Integration portal: https://eu-ua.kmu.gov.ua/en

Razumkov Centre: Ensuring the Irreversibility Of Ukraine’s European And Euro-Atlantic Course

By Petro Stetsiuk.  June 25, 2023 marked a year since Ukraine was granted the candidate status for membership in the European Union, by virtue whereof...

Ukrainian Centre for European Policy and Konrad Adenauer Foundation: A Realistic Path towards Ukraine’s Accession to the EU

Executive Summary For any new candidate aspiring to join the EU nowadays, the options are not plentiful, and the path is rocky – certainly if...

Ukrainian Centre for European Policy: A Realistic Path Towards Ukraine’s Accession to the EU

For any new candidate aspiring to join the EU nowadays, the options are not plentiful, and the path is rocky – certainly if candidates come...

Ukrainian Centre for European Policy: Ukraine and the Association Agreement: Implementation Monitoring 2014 – 2022

As of 2022, the overall progress in fulfilling the obligations stipulated by the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU is 55%. This assessment includes...

UCEP: The Western Balkans’ Path to the EU: Lessons for Ukraine

The paper by Ukrainian Centre for European Policy describes the essence and the recent developments of the EU enlargement focusing on explanations of how the...

Euroscope: Monitoring and Assessment of the EU-Ukraine AA implementation and EU acquis alignment progress, February – March

The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA) implementation has intensified across all state institutions since June 17, 2022, when the European Commission recommended that the European Council...

CEPS: EU Accession Prospects of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

Centre for European Policy Studies has published a report assessing the conditions set for Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia in response to their EU membership applications....

Book “The Reconstruction, Reform, and Accession of Ukraine”, co-authored by Dr. Anders Åslund and Andrius Kubilius

Dr. Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He is a leading specialist on economic...

Razumkov Centre: Ukraine on the Road to the EU: Realities and Prospects (Project Summary)

The Ukrainian experience of European integration in the conditions of war is unique. The country resisting the large-scale armed Russian aggression, suffering huge human, financial...

Olivier Dupuis: Ukraine and the need to overcome European illusions

There are persistent untruths, such as the one according to which a revision of the Treaties would suddenly become indispensable with the forthcoming enlargement of...

SCEEUS: On the Future of the EU’s Approach to Eastern Europe

By Pavel Havlicek. Awarding candidacy status to Ukraine and Moldova in June 2022 provided new impetus to the EU’s eastern policy but also created new...

SCEEUS: Next Steps for EU Enlargement – Forwards or Backwards?

By Michael Emerson and Steven Blockmans. The EU’s present enlargement process, once applauded as the EU’s most successful foreign policy, is not working well. With...

Meeting with German policy-makers: “Scholz’s speech in Prague: a turning point in Europe’s commitment to Ukraine’s EU integration?”

 7 October 2022 After the ambitious and positive announcements made by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Prague a month ago, we will gather German policy-makers to...

M.Roth. The future of the Western Balkans is at stake

Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has been a wake-up call for the EU from its geopolitical slumber. In the midst of the conflict with Putin’s Russia, the EU has rediscovered one of its most successful instruments: enlargement policy – which has been a driving force for peace, democracy, rule of law and prosperity in Europe.

Andrius Kubilius: War: will the geopolitical crisis make the EU stronger?

Politicians and experts often repeat a well-known refrain during crises: every crisis must be used by a country or an international organisation to make it...

Razumkov Centre: Association agreement with the EU in khaki

By Mykhailo Pashkov. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “The Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU has already been implemented by 63%, and 37% of objectives is...

Andrius Kubilius: Ukraine: Our Next Steps

It has been more than 130 days since Russia’s war against Ukraine began. Ukraine has shown that it is able to defend itself and win...

Atlantic Council: FAST THINKING: The EU gives Ukraine a shot at membership. What’s next for Kyiv?

Will they join the club? Ukrainians breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the European Union’s twenty-seven leaders unanimously approved Ukraine’s (and neighboring Moldova’s)...

East Neighbourhood Forum online event on Ukraine’s EU Accession prospects

21 June 2022, Brussels The European Council met on 23-24 June 2022 to take into account the European Commission’s opinion on Ukraine’s EU membership application,...

Andrius Kubilius: Next Milestones for Ukraine

The European Commission has recommended to grant Ukraine with the candidate status. Andrius Kubilius, a Member of the European Parliament (EPP, LT) argues what next...

Nathalie Loiseau: What War Teaches Us

War is back in Europe. We did not know, until a few months ago, that we would have to say this terrible sentence. But today...