EU enlargement used to be a big deal. It made academic careers, filled up newspaper columns, and set foreign ministries abuzz. Nowadays it is more of a niche subject. You do meet the odd Brussels think tanker or European Commission functionary who is enthused about Montenegro clearing benchmark X, Y or Z in its membership talks or eager to discuss the latest report on the state of Albania’s judiciary. But that’s not what keeps most EU watchers up at night.It is not difficult to grasp why EU expansion feels so passé. Turkey is not even pretending to be interested in …read more
Source: The American Interest
