In 2000, the EU needed fundamental reform to prepare for enlargement to the east, the south and the Baltic countries. But was the Nice European Council up to the challenge?
With negotiations stalled and Turkey’s PM presenting Europeans with a choice of all or nothing, we ask two MEPs for their opinion on Turkey’s future in the EU.
Forty years after the UK, Ireland and Denmark signed the treaties of the EEC, Seán Kelly and Margrete Auken debate whether their countries would still join the EU today.
Ana Gomes (S&D, Portugal) and Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (EPP, Greece) take a trip down memory lane as they discuss the EU's enlargement to the Mediterranean countries.
MEP Tanja Fajon (S&D, Slovenia) and observer Jozo Radoš (ALDE, Croatia) discuss the past and future of the ex-Yugoslav states and their hopes for EU enlargement.
Advice for the Commission on growth, the value of SMEs and political repression in Ukraine: some of the highlights of this week's plenary session in Strasbourg.