European Union

The Central European countries - Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - are unequivocally in favour of the enlargement of the European Union towards the East and the Western Balkans. At the same time, however, they stress that the path to membership must be conditional on fulfilling all the established criteria. Ukraine recognises that its integration into the EU will be a long haul, but every step forward means further distance from Russia's influence. Jana Faktor Juzová, a research fellow at the EUROPEUM Institute, commented for Euractiv.

"This is not the end, but the beginning," said then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 31 January 2020. The day went down in history as the moment Britain left the European Union after a public referendum in which 52 percent of Britons voted to leave. Zuzana Kasáková, a research associate at the EUROPEUM Institute, commented for iROZHLAS.