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V4 Divided on Georgian Elections: Poland Condemns, Hungary Backs, Czechia and Slovakia Stay Silent
29 October 2024
9 October 2024
What happens when candidate countries stop playing along? Enter the real politics of European enlargement.
Whenever experts and pundits convene these days, the discussion revolves around the EU’s declining capacity to influence developments critical to its own security.
Those who express concern are not Eurosceptics. They are the Union’s closest allies: longtime advocates for closer integration, external partners and civil society activists who have championed European values under the harshest conditions. These voices hail from both member states and candidate countries alike.
While everybody agrees that the world has changed – dominated by the US-China competition – there is considerable frustration with the EU’s performance amid heightened geopolitical tensions and a war on its border.