Articles in this set

• Continued growing pains

  Accession talks with would-be EU member states have slowed down, as have reforms in the countries that want to join.
  

• The good neighbour?

  Improvement in relations with Slovenia could see Croatia join the EU in 2011.
  

• A sceptical applicant

  Iceland's prime minister might be eager to join the European Union, but its citizens harbour doubts about the benefits of membership.
  

• Bridging the troubled Bosphorus

  A look at the issues obstructing Turkey's path to the EU and asks if membership is worth the effort.
  

• Haunted by the evils of war-time ghosts

  Unless Ratko Mladic, the indicted war criminal, is handed over to a court in The Hague, Serbia's bid to join the EU will continue to be blocked by the Netherlands.
  

• Stuck in the slow lane

  The slow pace of reform and poor relations between Bosnia's Serbs and the international community have held back the country's bid to join the EU.
  

• Distant EU aspirations for Europe's newest state

  Uncertainty over its legal status is not the only obstacle Kosovo faces in its bid to join the EU.
  

• Friendly to business – but also to organised crime

  Montenegro must show commitment to reform if it wants progress on talks.
  

• Meeting the benchmarks, bogged down in semantics

  It may take a name change to get Macedonia closer to EU membership.
  

• At the back of the queue

  Albania has an awful long way to go before becoming an EU member.
  

Enlargement