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...Context: After years of resistance, EU members embraced further enlargement of the bloc in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
...EU neighbourhood and enlargement commissioner Olivér Várhelyi told the FT this month that the Balkan accession bids would be “accelerated”, but that the onus was on them to “prove that they should be in...
...Brussels deserves credit for pushing ahead with EU enlargement plans....
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...convulsed the EU itself in 2015-2016....
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...and avoid “past mistakes” during enlargement....
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...With that retreat on enlargement alone, the EU’s bogeyman has lost some of his aura....
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...of the EU’s entire support to Ukraine....
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