Authors:Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun
Date:19 July 2022
Document type:Policy reports
Macron’s European Political Community (EPC) proposal: A tool to fob off to countries that have been working for EU membership. In our judgement, Macron’s EPC proposal is not only ill-defined, but worse than that, ill-intentioned. This extremely vague proposal seems to be a calculated move to keep the EU membership process of the Balkan countries of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia indefinitely in limbo. It is also possible to say that Macron’s proposal is a delaying tactic for Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia which aspire to join the EU