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While NATO enlargement did not bring any real security threats toward Russia, it changed the military balance between Russia and the West, fueling the Kremlin’s revisionism.
It was shaped by the EU’s eastern enlargement and the understanding that enlargement reflected the reunification of Europe.
There was no immediate pressure to re-invent Europe’s institutional foundation because EU enlargement was the institutional foundation for the new European order.
At the very least, the coming enlargement will call for much more majority voting in the Council of Ministers, if the Union is not be paralyzed by 27 member states and 27 national vetoes.
The cumulative result of all these national objections, is that the Nice summit is likely to see only a modest increase in the potential for majority voting, much smaller than enlargement requires.
In principle, the Commission ought to be slimmed down after enlargement, with fewer Commissioners than member states.
Enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 members will mean that for decades Europeans will need to live with greater material inequalities.
With enlargement, those differences can no longer be hidden.
And enlargement has enhanced Europe’s security substantially.
Because this enlargement round is likely to be the last for a long time, if not forever, it is urgent for member states to think seriously about re-writing the EU treaties to deal with the new reality, in terms which will be workable for the long term.
First, enlargement will take the EU right up to the frontier of Russia and the former Soviet Union; if Turkey joins, the EU will extend to the heart of the Middle East as well.
The problem is aggravated by the fact that the EU remains wholly unprepared for its "big bang" enlargement, even as it is set to begin.
But the enlargement schedule agreed at Copenhagen will define the final limit of the Union.
Otherwise, it is difficult to imagine further EU enlargement.
In theory, the advantage of this "big bang" enlargement is that it may concentrate minds on the need for a radical re-think of the decision-making processes in a bigger EU.
The trouble is that the steep escalation of enlargement coincides with a swing of opinion in a number of member countries in favor of a more intergovernmental EU, with more emphasis on cooperation between sovereign states and less attention to strengthening common EU institutions.
It has now become crystal clear that enlargement is going to be a very difficult process: difficult to negotiate, and just as difficult, perhaps, to sell to the voters.
Otherwise, enlargement simply will not get past the voters.
And if the Union does not master these problems in short order, there will be no enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: it is as simple as that.
France never engaged enthusiastically in the enlargement process, while the creation of the euro led to serious Franco-German tensions between1993 and 1999.
When enlargement and related transformation are completed, indeed, Europe will face the prospect of life in peace, security and freedom, of its inner order based on just principles.
This can happen only if the process of NATO enlargement and transformation goes hand in hand with strengthening a partnership with the Russian federation.
More than a decade after the fact, the Kremlin still decries NATO’s eastward enlargement as a security threat.
Russia’s opposition to NATO enlargement is often explained as an effort to prevent the countries that were formerly aligned with the Soviet Union from allying with a new geostrategic partner.
Further EU enlargement is also imperative.
The greatest success of Europe’s external policy has been EU enlargement.
European enlargement, creating large numbers of lower-wage workers at Germany's borders, will pose new challenges.
The subsequent enlargement to include South Africa has made the BRICS a more global grouping, which threatens to render irrelevant yet another initiative, the IBSA (India, Brazil, and South Africa).
But it is a status quo power with respect to the United Nations system, and steadfastly opposes enlargement of the Security Council’s permanent membership.
Why?EU enlargement will bring enormous impetus to the whole of Europe, particularly the Baltic region from which so many new EU members will come.
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