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Last but not least, would speedy enlargement of NATO have a positive or negative impact on Russia’s security policy towards its neighbors?
The strength of this reaction would probably be commensurate with the extent of enlargement: Prague or Vienna joining would draw a weaker backlash in Moscow than a similar move in Tallinn or Kiev.
Draw together the possible answers to these questions and four options for NATO enlargement can be presented:1. the first is to do nothing, meaning no enlargement whatsoever even to new members of the European Union.
But what happens then to the Baltics and Ukraine?4. the fourth and last option is to gear the pace of NATO enlargement to the process of growth of the European Union.
EU enlargement is an organic process, driven by shared economic and political interests, rather that by strategic considerations: thus it is not a "hot button" issue in Russia.
By tying NATO expansion to EU enlargement, no pre-set geographical limit is set to the process.
NATO enlargement is not for Moscow to veto.
We further argued that, at a time when enlargement momentum has been depleted, the EU should work to diversify its relationships with neighbors.
Why not postpone enlargement, they ask, until some of the states demanding to join Nato have gained EU membership, where elements of their security concerns may be met?
Time and again Moscow has thundered that Nato’s first eastward enlargement must be its last.
The strength of these protests, however, will make dawdling over Nato enlargement appear as a kowtow to President Putin;- The West promised to continue enlargement at the Washington Summit of April 1999.
Nato’s leaders also promised to revisit enlargement by 2002 at the latest.
So they cannot repeat the same formula in Prague and remain credible in both Russia and Eastern Europe;- EU enlargement takes time while Nato enlargement is relatively speedy.
Neither putative EU membership nor today’s favorable security conditions justify postponing enlargement.
If only one were invited to join as a symbol of western determination, Russia would interpret this as appeasement, not steadfastness)If Nato says “Yes” to the Baltics, it must make both Moscow and the Baltic three understand that enlargement is meant to increase stability along Russia’s western border, not threaten Russia.
Both must be done before any new enlargement is announced.
Efforts to contain the damage caused by postponement will likely be far more demanding than any effort needed to ease tension after enlargement is announced.
Both NATO and the EU have been forced to redefine how they function and rethink their purposes after a dual process of enlargement.
Here is where the constitutional assembly underway in Brussels can and must link enlargement with reform of the Union, for enlargement must also be used to strengthen the transparency and democratic legitimacy of the EU.
The Council of Nice in 2000 sought to restructure the Union for the time when enlargement will double its membership to 27.
At the very moment when today's candidate countries strive for EU membership, EU enlargement is feared by those states that are unlikely to join the Union for the foreseeable future.
After the current round of enlargement is completed, the EU's eastern border will likely run to the east of the Baltic states, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, with Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova on the other side.
Despite its Lisbon agenda, EU enlargement, and the coming of the euro, Europe’s overall economic performance has not improved because it has neglected many basic and everyday issues.
Increased support for EEU membership could stem from rising frustration with the EU’s lukewarm attitude toward further enlargement.
The EU’s failure in this regard owes much to the initial ease of its eastward enlargement.
Specifically, the strategy emphasizes the importance of the EU’s enduring soft power, in which prospective enlargement plays an important role, while acknowledging that soft power alone is not enough to ensure security.
The discussions surrounding the enlargement of the SDR basket (by including the renminbi) and coordination of bilateral swap arrangements should be understood from this perspective.
In Munich, the number of self-employed tilers increased in 2004 and 2005, the first two years after the first eastern enlargement wave, from 119 to 970.
But despite restrictions, by 2005 Germany had absorbed 37% of all migrants from Eastern Europe that came before and after eastern EU enlargement, whereas Italy had absorbed 22%, Greece 11%, Switzerland 8%, and the UK only 3%.
Before the EU’s eastern enlargement, many studies predicted the likely migration waves.
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