post-war reconstruction starts, and how the EU handles issues of governance, security, migration, trade, investment, the … energy transition, decarbonisation and the EU budget. The enlargement process is likely to overlap with post …-war reconstruction, increasing the EU's influence in fostering Ukraine's institutional development. Ukrainian leaders will have strong …

1990s. The EU's willingness to underpin reforms in central and south eastern Europe and hold out the prospect of EU … membership contributed to substantial growth, highlighting the long-term value of partnership with the EU. Long-term partnership … weak to provide the necessary EU support to domestic reforms in the SMCs, and to ensure the desired stability and …

The paper analyses the proposal to create a hard core of EU countries committed to deeper and faster integration by … the whole EU, Japan and the United States. The second uses principal component and cluster analyses to investigate whether … these five countries represent a homogenous grouping vis-à-vis the other EU members. …