Annual EU Enlargement Conference The 2026 Enlargement Package

Name: Annual EU Enlargement Conference — The 2026 Enlargement Package
Start: 2026-11-09
End: 2026-11-10
Location: Palatul Republicii

Advancing EU accession negotiations through reforms, dialogue, transparency and social inclusion

09–10 November2026

ChișinăuPalatul Republicii

About the conference

Two European integration platforms, one event

This special edition of the EU Enlargement Conference brings together the annual conference of the Bureau for European Integration (2nd edition) and the European Integration Forum (12th edition). The 2026 Enlargement Package, published by the European Commission, provides the reference framework: how negotiating milestones become reforms citizens can recognise in the courts, in local services, in energy bills and in the quality of public administration.

Accession is not delivered by the executive alone. Government, Parliament, civil society, business, trade unions and the media each carry part of the process.

The conference is organised by the Bureau for European Integration, the Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, in partnership with the Committee on European Integration of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova, the Foreign Policy Association (APE) and the World Justice Project, and with the support of Soros Foundation Moldova, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Moldova, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the German Federal Foreign Office.

2days of debate

11thematic sessions

6parallel sessions organised around the negotiating clusters

Conference structure

Two days, two formats

Day one focuses on progress under the 2026 Enlargement Package and the negotiating clusters. Day two continues in the format of the European Integration Forum.

Day 1 · 9 November

Annual Conference of the Bureau for European Integration

2nd edition

Plenary

Opening, keynote speech and presentation of the 2026 Enlargement Package results for the Republic of Moldova

High-level panel

What Next for the EU’s Enlargement Policy? Advancing EU Accession Momentum and EU Institutional Reform

Session A

Justice Reform and the Fight against Corruption: From Commitments to Results

Cluster 1

Parallel sessions B

Reform Where It Matters: Can Moldova Deliver the Local Public Administration Reform Efficiently?Cluster 1

From Candidate Country to Single Market: How Ready Is Moldova’s Economy?Cluster 2

Powering a Greener Moldova: Transport, Energy, Climate and the Cost of TransitionCluster 4

Parallel sessions C

Moldova in a Changing Europe: Security, Resilience and Foreign PolicyCluster 6

Who Benefits from Accession? Jobs, Skills and Social ProtectionCluster 3

From Farm to EU Market: What Changes for Moldovan Agriculture?Cluster 5

Day 2 · 10 November

European Integration Forum

12th edition

Opening

Opening remarks for the second day of the conference

Session D

The role of Parliament in advancing Moldova’s EU accession negotiations: results, challenges and prospects

Session E

Presentation of the 2026 WJP Rule of Law Index: Moldova’s functioning of democratic institutions, trends and reform priorities

Session F

EU Enlargement and the role of civil society and the media in promoting reforms, transparency and social cohesion

Closing

Concluding remarks

Organisers and partners

Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE)