When Iceland Said No to Brussels Íris Erlingsdóttir August 31, 2026 Icelanders were offered a chair at the negotiating table. They looked at it. And decided they were perfectly comfortable standing.
Iceland Votes on Its European Future With Fisheries and the Arctic at Stake Javier Villamor August 28, 2026 Icelanders will decide this Saturday whether to reopen EU accession negotiations, suspended since 2013.
“Catch the Train!” EU Tells North Macedonia To Change Its Constitution TEC News July 9, 2026 The EU Enlargement Commissioner wants to speed up the Balkan candidate’s Brussels accession.
Member States Block Commission Push on Serbia’s EU Membership Gábor Nagy July 8, 2026 Individual countries deliver a big setback for Brussels’ efforts to accelerate Belgrade’s accession path.
Montenegro Two Accession Chapters Closer to EU Membership TEC News June 16, 2026 As Podgorica inches closer to Brussels—with a 2028 deadline in mind—Kyiv seems to be getting fast-tracked.
Germany and France Float More Opportunities to Selected EU Accession Countries TEC News June 4, 2026 A new proposal suggests that candidate members could dabble in miscellaneous aspects of the Brussels bloc after making minimal commitments.
“Values without power are vulnerable, and alliances without industrial capacity are fragile”—Nikola Kedhi, Albanian Conservative Institute Álvaro Peñas June 3, 2026 “The question is not only whether the West has the right values, but whether it has the power to defend them.”
Independence Before Identity—Montenegro at Twenty Albana Bikaj May 21, 2026 Montenegro outlasted the Ottoman Empire, the forcible erasure of its statehood in 1918, and decades of communist Yugoslavia, but will it be able to outlast the European Union?
Mounting Tensions Between Armenia and Putin TEC News May 13, 2026 Yerevan insists it will not harm Moscow’s interests as it pursues a “balanced” and increasingly Brussels-oriented foreign policy.
Kallas: EU Aims To Speed Up Moldova Accession Talks TEC News May 8, 2026 President Maia Sandu reiterated Moldova’s goal to sign the EU accession treaty by 2028.
