Europe | The western Balkans and the EU

In the queue

The door to membership remains open, but the region must do more to get it

TO THOSE who oppose further European Union expansion to the western Balkans, the statement in July by Jean-Claude Juncker, the new European Commission president, was heartening. Negotiations would continue, he said, but “no further enlargement will take place over the next five years.” The political message seemed to be that the whole process was being slowed down.

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "In the queue"

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