On Europe's Edge

First broadcast July 2007

Countries in the Balkans, the former Soviet Union and Turkey, hope to join the European Union. It's a waiting game.

BBC Brussels correspondent Oana Lungescu presents the third and final programme about the problems facing countries seeking membership.

Programme three: On Europe's Edge - Ukraine and Moldova

The European Union has almost doubled its membership in just a few years, from fifteen to twenty-seven. But Romania and Bulgaria, which joined this year, will be the last new members until the end of the decade.

With the Balkan nations and Turkey nervously waiting in the wings, the European Union has locked the door to any more applicants.

Click here to view Oana's pictures for this programme

What's on offer to the 16 or so other neighbouring countries? Oana considers the idea of a "neighbourhood policy" that seems to be ensuring closer ties to the EU but offering no prospect of membership.

In the final part of On Europe's Edge, we travel to former Soviet countries that now find themselves caught in a sort of no man's land between the EU and Russia.

Series Producer: Michael Gallagher

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