European neighbourhood policy

Future outlook of EU-Moldova trade and investment relations

Marek Dabrowski and Jan Hagemejer

Migration flows from the Western Balkans to Germany: implications and recommendations

Migration to Germany is shaping the Western Balkans for better and worse, highlighting the need for reforms to harness benefits and mitigate drawbacks

Nina Ruer and Nina Vujanović

Rebuilding Ukraine: international support, defence and recovery

As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, how are EU and international partners helping to finance recovery and support reconstruction in a conflict zone?

Rebecca Christie, Tyson Barker, Simon O’Connor and Elina Ribakova

Economic convergence, demography, labour markets: what progress have EU candidate countries made?

Candidate countries remain far from European Union averages in terms of GDP per capita and their demographic and labour market characteristics

Marek Dabrowski and Maria Catarina Louro

How can the Western Balkans make EU integration a success story?

Nina Vujanović

How can the EU encourage intra-regional trade in the Western Balkans?

Nina Vujanović

Intra-Western Balkans dynamics: stocktaking and ways ahead

This paper explores the barriers to, and prospects for, deeper intra-Western Balkan economic relationships

Armin Steinbach, Nina Vujanović and Anna Fiore

The Western Balkans: a region in waiting

Stalled integration but a new growth plan for six countries bound to the EU by culture and geography

Rebecca Christie, Anna Fiore, Simonida Kacarska and Nina Vujanović

Updated assessment: Memos to the commissioners responsible for EU foreign, enlargement, and partnerships policies

Heather Grabbe, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

The European Union’s Geopolitical Ambitions: Enlargement, Neighbourhood and Necessary Institutional Changes

Marek Dabrowski

Memo to the commissioner responsible for migration

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

Memo to the commissioner responsible for enlargement

Zsolt Darvas and Heather Grabbe

The changing dynamics of the Western Balkans on the road to European Union membership: an update

This paper concentrates on economic and social convergence in the region and the economic and institutional aspects of EU accession

Marek Dabrowski and Luca Léry Moffat

The push-pull between geopolitics and domestic resistance: lessons from the 2004 enlargement of the EU

Geopolitics is now a chief concern of political leaders in both the EU and candidate countries, giving them strong reasons to integrate more closely

Heather Grabbe