Gradual integration best path to EU membership, two ministers say

Gradual integration of EU candidate countries into the bloc’s structures is “not an alternative to membership” but the best way to keep enlargement on track and achieve faster results, Austria’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg and his North Mac…

EU ambitions are โ€˜glueโ€™ holding Balkans together, North Macedonia says

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani issues plea for some movement as countries’ membership bids stall.

Malta tipped for OSCE chair as body faces Russia show-down over leadership

Amid worries over institutional deadlock, the 57-member Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) agreed on Monday (27 November) that Malta should take over the organisation’s rotating chairmanship after Russia barred Estonia fro…