EU enlargement put to the check: Georgia, Moldova votes shake Brussels | EUROtoday

The EU likes to underline that enlargement in the direction of the east is a safety precedence. And certainly, for the reason that warfare in Ukraine began, accession negotiations have begun with a number of international locations, most of them within the Balkans. But in a shock referendum outcome, barely over 50 p.c of voters in Moldova mentioned Yes to pro-EU constitutional modifications. And in one other shock for Brussels, Georgian Dream beat the staunchly pro-European opposition within the parliamentary election in Georgia; a vote whose integrity the EU has referred to as into query.
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