Hello from Brussels, where it’s autumn almost every day.
In the EU bubble – especially during actual autumn – everyone has been talking about the Enlargement Package. It was finally published last week.
The days leading up to it always feel like a competition among correspondents to see who lands the first leak. The European Commission does its best to seal the document, but every year, the main elements of these hundreds of pages tend to slip out anyway.
In recent years, the reports were often boring – just a recap of each country’s state of play, with little or no commitment from the EU to expand.
This time, though, the document brought hope: after more than a decade, enlargement became tangible again. The idea of expansion had always been present in official speeches – but absent in practice.
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