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ENLARGEMENT UNDER FIRE: HOW UKRAINE’S CANDIDACY IS REWIRING EU INTEGRATION AND INTERNAL REFORM
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has turned European Union enlargement from a slow technocratic process into a central instrument of European security. This article argues that Ukraine’s candidacy is pushing the union beyond the classic linear accession model towards a staged integration process, in which security cooperation, sectoral economic access, reconstruction support and governance conditionality…