CSCorina Stratulat Associate Director

1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Corina Stratulat Associate Director and Head of European Politics and Institutions Programme

   Soft law for the Union, hard law for the candidates | EPC (opens the original)

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   The Commission’s pre-enlargement policy reviews are expected this autumn, three years after the Granada Declaration and several missed dates later. Their content is unknown but their form is not – and that is already telling. The reviews will arrive as a communication: non-binding, confined to what is possible under the current Treaties and likely to focus where consensus already exists. Meanwhile, the debate over Montenegro’s eventual accession treaty is already turning to post-accession safegu

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2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Corina Stratulat Associate Director and Head of European Politics and Institutions Programme

   The old order will not snap back (opens the original)

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   This summer’s screen Odyssey ends with Ulysses admitting that the victory never tasted like one. Troy did not end an order. It made plain that the order had already ended. Europe now blames Putin for shattering the rules-based order and Trump for dismantling what remains of it. Both charges are fair, but also convenient: if the fires are the problem, firefighting is the answer. And Europe has become very good at firefighting. The euro survived, NextGenerationEU broke taboos, sanctions held. But

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3. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Corina Stratulat Associate Director and Head of European Politics and Institutions Programme

   EU Enlargement cannot do it all (opens the original)

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   Icelanders have spoken, by a margin of 52.8% to 47.2%, they rejected even reopening EU accession negotiations. Yet this was hardly a vote against European integration. Through the EEA, Iceland participates deeply in the Single Market, incorporates much of the EU acquis and cooperates closely with the Union, while Schengen removes another important border and NATO membership provides the security guarantee. Icelanders will remain highly integrated with Europe without becoming members of the EU. F

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