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Funda Tekin
Director of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in Berlin and Scientific Lead of the Horizon Europe project InvigoratEU, expert on EU enlargement and EU-Turkey relations.
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Oct 9, 2026
Making enlargement work: What needs to change in the EU? | InvigoratEU Talks #05
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12:12Funda TekinGUEST
Actually, the aspects that you just were mentioning, the bilateral disputes between member states and candidates, or also between candidate countries and also public opinion, were among the main drivers that we analyzed for our visioning procedure with regards to the most resilient Europe.
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12:31Funda TekinGUEST
And because we thought that this is really something that both affects the credibility of countries of the procedure and if then of course the credibility is impacted that also has a repercussion on public opinion so it's all interrelated.
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12:45Funda TekinGUEST
The third aspect that we were also looking at was then the entire security dimension.
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12:51Funda TekinGUEST
But starting with the bilateral disputes and I think here it's always the most prominent example is really North Macedonia to look at because North Macedonia is the only accession candidate country whose accession negotiations have officially started back in 2022, but not a single chapter has been opened so far.
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13:11Funda TekinGUEST
So I think this is really something where bilateral disputes, in this case with Bulgaria, is actually impeding the process.
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13:19Funda TekinGUEST
And then in the past, it was disputes with Greece with regards to the name and the flag of the country.
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24:41Could you explain what is Invigorate EU research proposing to provide enough security to Ukraine for the country to survive in the first place to then be able to actually join the European Union?