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so there's some big news from brussels as ukraine and moldova have become official eu candidates they join a list of five other candidate countries working towards meeting the eu entry criteria not to mention that there are three further countries trying to get eu candidate status within the next year or so does this mean that there will be a total of 34 to 37 eu member states by the end of the decade this video will try and address this question by looking at what the road to eu membership looks like which countries are likely to join next in terms of rankings and what 37 member states would mean for the eu so what does eu candidacy actually mean broadly speaking to obtain eu membership aspiring eu member states have to go through four stages firstly there's the eu candidacy application this involves an official membership request and a corresponding readiness check from the eu commission after which the european council votes whether the applicant becomes a candidate next there's a screening stage here the commission works with the candidate country to reform and align their legislation to the eu next there's negotiation this is where 35 chapters of eu legislation are discussed with the candidate each chapter has to be closed the unanimous support from the european council before moving to the next stage lastly there's accession this is where the final accession document needs to be approved by everyone both in the eu and in the candidate country so how far along this process are the current eu candidates well the newest applicants ukraine and moldova have become official candidates and sit at the start of the screening stage next are the balkan countries where serbia and montenegro have started negotiations with the eu closing a couple of chapters each north macedonia and albania have not closed any chapters and are still in the screening stage then there's turkey who has started negotiations with one chapter closed and finally there are three more countries georgia bosnia and herzegovina and kosovo who are all in stage one working towards the eu's commission's blessing for official candidacy this moves us to the second part of the video who is likely to join the eu next once you see how many years ago the balkan states and turkey applied it becomes quite a somber picture this has resulted in a lot of frustration from the western balkan states who feel that the eu has failed to deliver on accession hopes some of their leaders have been very vocal around this however with the ukraine and moldova becoming candidates there may be new momentum behind eu accession and i think some of the balkan states have a decent chance to become members by 2030 let's start with north macedonia who obtained candidate status ages ago yet remains in the screening phase this is due to suffering multiple opposing vetoes over the years starting with greece where there was a dispute regarding the country's name which was resolved by renaming the country from the republic of macedonia to north macedonia then france and the netherlands in 2019 where mccraw claimed that the accession process needed restructuring first then there was bulgaria who raised historical and linguistic disputes however with help from france bulgaria has recently lifted their veto and as albania's bid is coupled to north macedonia's both countries can now finally start negotiations with the eu yes start negotiations even after 17 years none of the 35 eu policy chapters have been discussed as of yet but their path seems clear now and i believe that they are second favorite to join the eu next then there's serbia where things have slowed down over the last couple of years mainly due to three reasons firstly serbia has not recognized kosovo as an independent state next they've not joined the eu in sanctions against russia and lastly they have an unfavorable public opinion towards eu membership serbia is a difficult one and i think that if they were to join the eu it would take a long time and potentially a different government i also think they would have to join together with kosovo to stop any future vetoes going against each other therefore even though negotiations have started i would place them behind albania and north macedonia on my ranking list this leads to my number one pick which is montenegro who currently have few political issues with their neighbors and is very small with only 620 000 people they have also gone through significant reform and are in the negotiation phase with three chapters closed already now coming back to ukraine and moldova the european commission has already outlined seven reforms that need to be addressed by the end of this year in my opinion it is unlikely that these areas will be addressed adequately anytime soon not to mention that we don't even know what ukraine will look like in the future as the war may continue for years as for moldova there's a russian-backed breakaway region called transnistria that will need to be resolved before eu membership negotiations can start in terms of rankings i feel there's a lot of uncertainty with ukraine and with 44 million people this is a very large eu accession with a lot of meps moldova is a lot smaller and there's less conflict so i think moldova will join before ukraine as for georgia there's overwhelming public and political support for joining the eu however a lot of obstacles remain such as ongoing territorial conflicts with russia who currently occupied two regions next there's allegations of democratic backsliding and lastly there's an absence of an eu border yet i would still place georgia above ukraine as it is a lot smaller very pro-eu and currently not at war this brings us to the last two countries bosnia and turkey bosnia and herzegovina is also a long way off as little progress has been made towards the 14 priorities that the eu outlined some years ago some of these priorities require constitutional change such as creating a supreme court this is very difficult in a country that is effectively split into two as for turkey's membership bid it has stalled in 2019 as president erdogan has grown increasingly autocratic with his crackdown on civil society media and academia not to mention that turkey's huge population would put it on par with germany in terms of mep's not sure whether that will go down so well therefore in terms of rankings i think bosnia and turkey are most unlikely to join anytime soon therefore putting them at 7th and 8th respectively so there you have it the order in which the candidates and potential candidates may join the eu and of course this is just my opinion i am most likely completely wrong and who knows ukraine may join next due to the special circumstances with the russian invasion please let me know what you think in the comments ultimately though it is more likely that the eu will need to change before anyone joins bringing us to the last part of the video what would 37 member states mean for the eu well in a nutshell it will make it near possible to make quick eui decisions in regards to foreign policy fiscal policy and social policy there would be even more vetoes as montenegro for example representing only 0.1 percent of the eu population could block eu legislation with their veto the way i see it there are only two ways around this either we need eui treaty change to remove the country's veto and replace it with qualified majority voting see this video for more detail secondly we could move to a tiered eu where certain countries integrate more while others don't this is also something i will look at in more detail in the future so subscribe if you're interested but most importantly what do you think should the eu take on more members or not see you in the comments