A recent study compares the existing legal frameworks governing relations between the EU and candidate countries, with the aim of facilitating their gradual integration into the Union. The research pays particular attention to the link between enlargement and cohesion policy in light of the future EU Multiannual Financial Framework.

06/07/2026, Gentiola Madhi, Alice Bandera 

A delegation of Members of the European Parliament joined the Flamingo Revolution currently taking place in Tirana, calling on the Albanian government to provide greater protection for nature, tackle corruption, and ensure greater transparency and democracy

03/07/2026, Erisa Kryeziu  Tirana

Wine in Moldova is one of the main exports to the EU. With the 2006 Russian embargo and the country’s new direction, Moldova has increasingly oriented itself towards the EU market. We interviewed Margherita Gobbat, a researcher at the Research Center for East European Studies (FSO) at the University of Bremen, Germany, and the Center for Social Sciences (CSS), Georgia

02/07/2026, Luisa Chiodi, Gentiola Madhi 

Academics, journalists, lawyers, trade unionists and representatives of civil society have been arrested on arbitrary grounds in Turkey in the run-up to the forthcoming NATO summit, scheduled to take place in Ankara on 7 and 8 July. According to the opposition, the hundreds of arrests are aimed at preventing any form of protest or dissent

01/07/2026, Burcu Karakaş  Istanbul

In early June, Moldova, together with Ukraine, began accession negotiations with the EU. On that occasion, a conference on European investment in the country was held in Chișinău to try to answer the question: In what areas should the Moldovan economy—one of the poorest on the continent—specialize?

30/06/2026, Gian Marco Moisé, Gian Paolo Accardo 

Silvia Duminuco, a young woman adopted twenty years ago by a Sicilian couple, has returned to North Macedonia in search of her origins. A journey filled with hope and expectations as she sets out to rediscover her roots, which could soon be turned into a documentary

30/06/2026, Aleksandar Samardjiev  Tetovo