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From my perspective at the OSCE, it is clear that far more needs to be done:The EU's technical capacity, which has been preoccupied by enlargement, could be redirected towards assistance for the non-candidate countries of Euro-Asia.
Similar dissembling characterized negotiations on trade, partnership agreements, the enlargement of the EU to Eastern Europe, and access to Kaliningrad.
The new populist and nationalist parties are suspicious of Europe in general, and of EU enlargement in particular.
European enlargement, moreover, although imminent, is not a done deal.
Negotiations for enlargement are still under way.
What is certain is that the outcome of the European Parliament election is bad news for supporters of deeper EU integration, which would require shifting more power from the member states to the supranational level, and for supporters of further EU enlargement.
Romano Prodi’s European Commission has conceived a far-sighted strategy of enlargement.
In a Union divided between net contributors and net beneficiaries, the economic fact of enlargement is that it will bring in much poorer countries.
So until now, at least on paper, the EU refused to open enlargement talks with candidate countries before they fulfilled a set of burdensome criteria.
The shock of ethnic wars contributed to the idea of using enlargement as a carrot to entice stragglers toward reform.
Before new members are admitted, more decisions will have to made by majority rule, otherwise enlargement will explode existing EU programs.
Second, although European security could be enhanced by enlargement, the most worrying countries remain far from qualifying for membership.
If Europe's social market model is to survive enlargement, it must find a way to expand eastward with the EU.
Instead, EU enlargement is being carried out according to what might be described as the principle of "asymmetrical integration."
Known as the “Barcelona process,” this initiative proved weak and ineffective, because much of its funding was diverted to Eastern Europe for the EU’s ambitious enlargement drive.
Unlike EU members admitted during earlier rounds of enlargement, the Central Europeans suffer from widespread corruption, political nepotism, fragile political parties with unclear identities, and weak civil societies.
NATO After ExpansionPARIS: Having effectively turned its back on the Cold War era by accepting three former Warsaw Pact countries as members, NATO must now focus its efforts in two directions: making certain that enlargement enhances security and stability in Europe; and renovating its command structures so as to meet the military challenges of today and tomorrow.
Although the Russians continue to express unhappiness with NATO enlargement, they have accepted it to the point of signing a substantive, balanced, and politically-binding document that draws Moscow closer to the West in institutional terms.
Initially, the costs associated with enlargement were not a politically significant issue.
However, the current mood of the U.S. Senate (best described as a mix of unilateralism and neo-isolationism), may make this the key issue in next spring’s debate to ratify NATO enlargement.
The potential dilutive effect of enlargement, the inward-look of part of the U.S. body politic, and intra-alliance disagreements may well reduce NATO to marginal relevance or even reduce, rather than enhance, its contribution to international peace and security.
A Better and Safer EuropeTo many, myself included, NATO's enlargement to take in, among others, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- which were once Soviet republics -- is an impossible dream come true.
NATO's enlargement makes it crystal clear that no country in the new Europe can be regarded as part of another country's "zone."
Expansion will also create a better Europe because enlargement widens the territory in which countries are committed to NATO's political values, including individual rights as well as the rights of minorities.
Rightly so: enlargement of NATO is not an "expansion" that threatens Russia or other countries which strive for democratic political reforms.
Indeed, enlargement of NATO comes only a few days after a deal was struck between Russia and the EU on the tricky question of access to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
When the enlargement of the EU into Central and Eastern Europe is finally decided by the European Council in Copenhagen next month, the conclusion is clear: Europe has become a much better and safer place to live in, thanks to the decisions taken by NATO and the EU during the crucial autumn of 2002.
Only a few years ago EU and NATO enlargement were regarded as wild dreams.
European officials have been at pains to prevent the EU’s enlargement from creating new dividing lines between Belarus and its neighbors to the west and north – Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia – that joined the Union in 2004.
In light of even greater differences resulting from the enlargement, they are not likely to succeed in the near future.
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