The EU is ready to expand. For the first time in more than a decade, European Union leaders are going to seriously discuss adding new members when they gather in Grenada, Spain, this Friday. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports on how the calculus for expansion has changed since Russia waged war on Ukraine.
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