New Delhi, July 15 -- BRUSSELS - The European Union held four accession conferences in a single day for the first time in more than two decades on Monday, advancing membership negotiations simultaneously with Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro, and Albania in a diplomatic sprint that EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos called "a Super Tuesday for enlargement."

The back-to-back Brussels sessions on July 14 pushed Ukraine and Moldova into Cluster 6 negotiations covering external relations, foreign policy, and defense alignment, while Albania crossed its own historic threshold, beginning to close negotiating chapters for the first time in its candidacy.

Kos did not frame the day as procedural routine. "Today it is really a Super Tuesday for en...