EU
Alternative may emerge to full Turkish accession to EU
The EU's latest olive branch towards Erdogan has not worked but a trade deal just might
TurkeyEU-UK Brexit talks could collapse over financial row
A dispute over the United Kingdom’s financial obligations to the EU could threaten negotiations
EUEU will enter Brexit talks as a united actor
Differences may emerge once talks are under way, but for now the EU-27 have achieved a high level of unity
EUAthens’s reluctance to reform will cost time and money
The Greek reform package is mostly needed and could have been agreed long before now but for governments’ intransigence
GreeceMacedonia lacks umpire to cool ethnic passions
A solution will be elusive: the president supports VMRO as Western powers back a new government including Albanians
MacedoniaChina leads the fast-growing automobile market
Regulation and US-EU-Chinese trade relations will be key to the digitalisation of the automobile market in coming years
InternationalRow with EU has uncertain end but will boost Budapest
Orban wants an EU that is a loose association that provides convergence funding but does not enforce common values
HungaryGermany is unlikely to soften its Brexit stance
Berlin will prioritise the long-term stability of the EU over a favourable deal with the United Kingdom
Germany
