In a country where teenagers still dream of leaving even as their parents return for less money and more meaning, Moldova’s strange pull on its lost citizens is a gripping story of departure, comeback—and the nagging urge to escape again.
The EU debates how to rewrite its farm policy, miners’ fields, blocked borders and undercapitalised smallholders. It reveals a looming showdown over who will actually profit from Europe’s next big enlargement.
Serbia’s wavering between Western and Eastern ties is spilling over into a deadlock on EU accession reforms, and some MEPs want to cut its funding.
Poland’s own accession path in 2004, and its unique relationship with Kyiv, provides lessons and strategy on Ukraine’s EU membership process. No other EU member has been so intertwined with Ukraine and understands the specific post-Soviet structural hurdles it now faces