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Anna Fedas

Anna Fedas is international cooperation coordinator at the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw. The Stefan Batory Foundation (Polish: Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego) is an independent Polish non-government organisation, whose mission is to build an open, democratic society.

What Ukraine can learn from Poland’s rocky EU accession in 2004
9 March 2026 by Anna Fedas
Poland’s own accession path in 2004, and its unique relationship with Kyiv, provides lessons and strategy on Ukraine’s EU membership process. No other EU member has been so intertwined with Ukraine and understands the specific post-Soviet structural hurdles it now faces