Geopolitical Aspects of the EU Enlargement Process: Macedonian and Ukrainian Case
Journal: European Scientific Journal ESJ
Year: 2025

This paper compares the integration processes of North Macedonia and Ukraine, which have recently opened EU accession negotiations. The significant disparity in the pace of their integration processes - remarkably slow in the case of North Macedonia and exceptionally fast in the case of Ukraine - serves to examine whether EU enlargement decisions are shaped more by the institutional criteria or by geopolitical interests of member states. Using a comparative approach, the study analyzes the Europ