On April 20 the German Marshall Fund in Washington hosted Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for EU Enlargements Negotiations and EU Neighbourhood, for a discussion focused on the EU’s relations with its neighbors in the Western Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus and on the process of reforms and the prospects of greater EU integration. The Commissioner highlighted Western Balkan countries and Turkey in the aftermath of the release of the annual EU Commission’s progress reports on April 17. The EU Commission announced a new Western Balkans Strategy on February 6, 2018, opening up the possibility of countries in …read more