The struggle pushed the EU to become more aware of the with the functioning of democratic institutions need to protect its own borders and increase and the rule of law in some of the "big- its influence in the neighbourhood. [...] 4 A vital question mark for the EU The WB6 integration path the political discussion on the Western Balkans integration path without formally committing to At the beginning of the 1990s, with the end of it.5 This was considered strategic to overcome the Cold War and the rise of a new global order the impasse generated by the former EU based on increasing social, institutional and Commission Presid. [...] The problem is that many of the financial agreements between the WB6 The Covid-19, the war in Ukraine or the energy countries and China have been secreted and crisis, to name a few, are just examples of the are often in violation of the European rule of radical changes occurring in the global arena. [...] supervised by the EU institutions.20 According Finally, the enlargement approach towards the WB6 to the V-Dem's liberal democracy index, Hungary needs to seriously consider the uncomfortable and Poland have been the two countries standing geopolitical spot where the EU stands: at the out for the worsening of their liberal democracy centre of rising tensions between the West and index, which has de. [...] The enlargement approach towards the WB6 needs to seriously consider the uncomfortable geopolitical spot where the EU stands: at the centre of rising tensions between the West and the East of the global arena.
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