EU Reportedly Drafting Phased Accession Roadmaps for Four Candidate Countries

European Commission officials are working on phased roadmaps for European Union accession covering four candidate countries — Albania, Moldova, Ukraine and Montenegro — according to a report by Russia's TASS news agency citing unnamed sources.

The report did not provide details on the proposed timeline, the specific stages envisioned for each country, or which EU institutions or member states have reviewed the plans.

All four countries are currently at different stages of the EU's formal accession process, though the report did not specify how a phased approach would differ from the standard accession procedure.

Neither the European Commission nor representatives of the four candidate countries were quoted directly in the material reviewed, and the claims are attributed solely to unnamed sources cited by TASS.