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Is enlargement the only effective policy of stabilization and peace?
It is simply an expression of gratitude to the US for helping to bring down Communism and, more recently, for pressing ahead with NATO enlargement--despite objections from Russia--at a time when the EU was hopelessly dragging its feet with regard to its own enlargement.
Although the EU's eastward enlargement has not yet happened, the debate is already shifting to ask what will follow: when should the new, predominantly postcommunist, members adopt the euro?
Instead, Russia had to deal with the Iraq war, NATO enlargement to the Baltic states, pro-Western revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia, and the Bush administration’s “Freedom Agenda” aimed at global democratization.
Cooperation, they may decide, comes with a price: accommodating Russian opposition to NATO’s eastward enlargement.
But now the 25 member states must deal with the financial consequences of that enlargement, not just in the overall size of the European Union budget for the next seven years, but in who pays and who benefits.
Since Britain had been one of the most insistent advocates of enlargement of the EU to the candidates from Central and Eastern Europe, one might have expected that the Blair government would have wished to be correspondingly generous to the new-comers in the conduct of the budgetary negotiations.
The fourth shock was eastern EU enlargement, which has brought extraordinary chances for trade and investment in the east, but has also brought massive low-wage competition.
The EU was at its apogee at the time, lifted by the new euro and the ambitious “Big Bang” eastward enlargement of 2004; so the chances of securing change today, when the EU is at its nadir of popularity, would at first sight seem even more unlikely.
The EU’s future enlargement to adjacent territories – the essence of its foreign policy in the last 15 years – will become less and less likely.
With each enlargement of the Union, this system of decision-making has been largely maintained.
My assertion that Danes are not anti-Europeans finds support in a recent Eurobarometer-poll: Voters in all EU-countries were asked if they regard enlargement of the Union with the applicant countries in Eastern and Central Europe as “a priority”.
Enlargement of the European Union eastward is the great challenge of the coming years.
The benefits of this will more than compensate for the economic costs of enlargement.
Fighting the French ExceptionEurope's attention nowadays is rightly focused on enlargement and on the constitution that is currently being worked out between the EU's member states.
Kohl's unease with Nato enlargement became visible in January 1994, when Nato's leaders accepted the principle of enlargement.
In February 1996, Kohl urged that Nato put enlargement on hold until the Russian and US presidential elections passed.
This visit yielded another appeal not to rush Nato enlargement.
The message, once more, was contradictory: Nato would not invite new members from the East before setting a new strategic relationship with Russia -- but, of course, Moscow could not veto enlargement.
He knows enlargement will happen, and does not want to stop it; for Germany it is desirable that neighbors to the East, like those to the West, be allies.
This trust sustains Kohl's confidence that he can reconcile the contradictions inherent in Nato enlargement: an opening of the Alliance to new members, and a special arrangement between Nato and Russia (and also, incidentally, between Nato and Ukraine).
But Kohl has left Yeltsin in no doubt that Nato enlargement will get underway in 1997 in any event.
What binds them together is the knowledge that the long-standing, familiar bargains between today's EU members will be massively disrupted a few years down the road of enlargement of the Union which is to encompass most of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
On balance, of course, the economic downside to enlargement should only be a short-run problem, mainly a matter of perceptions and sectoral vested interests.
Liberalisation, free trade and competition in a larger EU should, in the medium-term, produce benefits for all, including existing members; and in its present form the CAP is in any case unsustainable, with or without enlargement.
Given Europeans’ complicated experience with European Union enlargement, they should understand the challenges that accompany such a profound change.
With European Union enlargement, and as the recent Russian gas crisis demonstrated, that backyard now includes not just Ukraine, but Georgia as well.
Finally, France participated actively in talks on NATO's eastward enlargement, and on creating a partnership with Russia and Ukraine.
Expanding NATO into the Baltic States in 2002 – the Alliance’s first enlargement into former Soviet territory – was a catastrophic mistake, which made it almost impossible for a Russian to be both patriotic and pro-Western.
Russia wants to roll back democratic breakthroughs on its borders, to destroy any chance of further NATO or EU enlargement and to reestablish a sphere of hegemony over its neighbors.
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