Zelenskyy, Sandu, Vučić to defend their accession bids as Brussels unveils annual enlargement report

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Leaders from Ukraine, Moldova and the Western Balkans volition instrumentality portion successful an exclusive Euronews lawsuit connected enlargement successful Brussels connected 4 November, 2025.

Leaders from Ukraine, Moldova and the Western Balkans volition instrumentality portion successful an exclusive Euronews lawsuit connected enlargement successful Brussels connected 4 November, 2025. - Copyright Euronews

By&nbspAlice Tidey&nbsp&&nbspJorge Liboreiro, Vincenzo Genovese, Mared Gwyn Jones, Marta Iraola, Cynthia Kroet, Peggy Corlin, Romane Armangau

Published on 04/11/2025 - 9:00 GMT+1

Enlarging the European Union is simply a strategical precedence - but who is advancing, and who isn't doing the work? The European Commission and leaders of campaigner countries mightiness person antithetic takes. They'll get to statement them astatine an exclusive Euronews lawsuit today.

The leaders of Ukraine, Moldova and the Western Balkans volition articulation Euronews for a peculiar unrecorded lawsuit successful Brussels to beforehand their candidacies to articulation the EU astatine a captious geopolitical moment. They volition beryllium joined by the pistillate driving the process, EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, connected the time she delivers her archetypal study card.

European Council President Antonio Costa volition besides instrumentality portion successful the first-of-its-kind governmental lawsuit successful Brussels - each to beryllium grilled by the Euronews squad of reporters.

The Commission's study comes astatine a important infinitesimal successful which Ukraine is pleading for an unprecedented reparations indebtedness to prolong its warfare effort, Georgia has frozen talks with the EU and Serbia is astatine a crossroads betwixt Russia and the EU.

The enactment kickstarts unrecorded connected air, and successful the video subordinate above, astatine 14:00 CET.

Follow our unrecorded blog beneath for a play-by-play of the interviews:

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The EU has a 'responsibility' towards campaigner countries

Euronews sat down with Marta Kos past week for a radical interrogation successful which the enlargement commissioner said that the EU has learnt from its mistakes with the UK and Georgia and is present prepared to beryllium "more assertive" including by investing successful campaigner countries to antagonistic fake narratives.

Kos, who took bureau successful December past year, said 2025 marked a departure for the mode the European Commission approached enlargement, notably due to the fact that "it was the archetypal clip that we invested resources, we person invested men and women powerfulness to assistance fend disconnected overseas malign interference".

"This included for the archetypal clip the deployment of the EU’s accelerated hybrid effect team," she added.

The beneficiary was Moldova, whose bid to go an EU subordinate authorities was launched conscionable weeks aft Russia rolled its tanks into Ukraine successful its full-scale penetration successful aboriginal 2022.

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Get acceptable for an action-packed day

Today is D-Day for enlargement arsenic leaders from six of the campaigner countries volition articulation Euronews successful Brussels for an exclusive acme to sermon their accession progress, conscionable arsenic the European Commission volition unveil its yearly study card.

Here's the docket for the acme (all times CET):

14:10: Keynote by European Council President Antonio Costa;
14:16: The Europe Conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy;
14:38: The European Conversation with Moldova's Maia Sandu;
14:59: EU Enlargement Talks sheet with Albania's Edi Rama, North Macedonia's Hristijan Mickoski, and Montenegro's Filip Ivanović;
16:00: The Europe Conversation with Marta Kos;
16:24: The Ring with MEPs David McAllister and Marc Botenga;
16:53: The Europe Conversation with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

But earlier that, our squad of ace reporters volition besides bring you sum of Marta Kos appearing successful beforehand of the European Parliament's overseas affairs committee wherever she volition preview the enlargement report.

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