The European Commission adopted on 17 April 2018 its annual Enlargement Package, including seven individual reports, assessing the implementation of the European Union's enlargement policy which is based on established criteria and fair and rigorous conditionality. Progress along the European path is an objective and merit-based process which depends on the concrete results achieved by each individual country, with the rule of law, justice and fundamental rights being an utmost priority. A credible enlargement perspective requires sustained efforts and irreversible reforms. The EU Enlargement is an investment in peace, security and stability ...

On March 26, 2018 in Varna, a Bulgarian Black sea resort, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and Boyko Borisov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria which holds the EU Council’s rotational presidency will meet with the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The meeting itself is important because there are many open issues to solve between the European Union and Turkey, which has been a candidate for membership in the Union for many years now. Among the most important issues at this time, however, are those related to refugees on the Turkish territory. European countries will wan ...

Over the last year counter terrorism experts and European policy makers alike have warned that the military defeat and the end of large scale ISIS presence in the Middle East may be the beginning of a new phase; the influx of returning foreign fighters. We all know that the numbers are immense, that the foreign fighters are battle hardened and, in many occasions, ultra-radicals. We also know that many will hardly be able to return to their original homeland and will, just like the Afghan Mujahedeen did in the early nineties of the last century, seek to infiltrate the European space. It is a headache for intelligence services all through Euro ...