Nine countries are currently in the process of acceding to the European Union: North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia and Turkey. The European club seems to be growing ever more appealing, to the point where Iceland could also reintroduce a membership application.
While the Union's renewed popularity delights its current members, they are nevertheless concerned about the possible consequences of an enlargement.
Several voices are thus calling for countries ravaged by war, such as Ukraine, or others plagued by corruption, not to be granted access to an accelerated and incomplete procedure for geopolitical reasons.
We discuss the issue of EU enlargement with our guests.
You can read here the verbatim of the debate on EU Enlargement strategy that took place during the plenary session in the European Parliament on 10 March 2026.
Programme prepared by Oihana Almandoz, Isabelle Romero and Perrine Desplats
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Our guests
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Marta Temido Portuguese MEP, Socialists and Democrats
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Jüri Ratas Estonian MEP, European People's Party
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