The two most promising candidate countries were identified by the EU Commission as Montenegro and Albania. In addition to Serbia and Turkey, all other European countries that are negotiating with the EU on joining the EU or are pure candidates are assessed by the EU Commission as positive in this report.
These unusual features create a sense that the EU Commission suddenly attaches special importance, prioritizes and is somewhat urgent with the admission of new members in the near future. For a long time, the EU has used the prospect of joining the EU to attract and tie up European countries, keeping them under the influence and control of the EU, not letting them cluster or deviate to any other partner inside or outside Europe.
The report expresses the EU's new awareness of the need to quickly expand the alliance despite internal instability and many challenges from the outside. It seems that the EU needs to expand the alliance to use it as evidence of the alliance continuing to develop, not stagnating or falling behind, thinking that it could strengthen if there were more members.
The EU changed its viewpoints and approaches on the issue of expanding the alliance to gather and unify all European countries, that is, unify the continent, to jointly deal with Russia and China as well as respond to the US, and must pay attention to expanding the alliance to compensate for the stagnant progress in the deep connection. The EU expects the expansion of the alliance to help the EU better address current problems and challenges. But expanding the alliance will create many new problems that are equally difficult for the EU.
