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To that end, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in his “State of the Union” address last September, called for a “credible enlargement perspective” for the region.
It is this prospect of a massive enlargement that defines the central challenge facing the EU: how to strengthen its institutions to be able to handle a Union whose membership will expand from 15 to 27 countries - perhaps more.
If EU governments are able to strengthen central political institutions, enlargement may be successful; if not, it may be blocked.
Down with Euro-PaternalismItaly's presidency of the European Union bears an enormous responsibility, namely reinvigorating enlargement as the key aspect of the new EU.
It is high time that EU institutions address more seriously the challenges and opportunities posed by enlargement.
In a sense, Russia has behaved like Greece in claiming that NATO enlargement threatens its security.
Once the potential “military threat” posed by the Soviet Union had vanished into thin air, successive waves of NATO enlargement served neither a military nor an ideological purpose.
The West’s logic for enlargement was geopolitical: to bring the former Soviet republics and socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe into the Western sphere of political and economic influence.
Moreover, NATO enlargement has meant that Europe itself has still not emerged from the Cold War.
NATO enlargement would de facto be frozen.
Then there are those who believe that EU enlargement has prevented greater “deepening,” and who, with scant regard for the past or the future, argue that pursuing the latter requires abandoning the former.
Further EU enlargement is undoubtedly in Turkey’s interest, and in Europe’s, too.
Then there is Britain’s political leadership, for whom enlargement is a way to avoid deepening, and, indeed, to dissolve political Europe.
EU enlargement cannot continue without the many practical and pragmatic elements included in the Lisbon Treaty.
And the enlargement process is the most important endeavor the EU has undertaken, including the creation of the euro.
Moreover, enlargement should be regarded as an important element of Europe’s security policy, helping countries that have only recently democratized to secure stability at home and giving them the strength to deal with external pressures.
In particular, the way Europe, in the process of its enlargement, has projected its power to achieve lasting peace across the whole continent, and fostered development by integrating entire economies, states, and societies within its institutional framework, could become a model for shaping a cooperative world order in the twenty-first century.
After all, given broad resistance to any further EU enlargement at the moment, the accession process will undoubtedly move very slowly.
Moreover, circumstances within the EU itself – economic crises and the rise of xenophobic political parties in recent years – have put its enlargement policy on the back burner, with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announcing in 2014 that no new members would be accepted before 2019.
In this context, the EU should not permit current challenges to weaken its overall enlargement strategy.
But, whatever Ukraine achieves, it cannot overcome Europeans’ fears of further integration, much less enlargement.
In late January, the Obama administration issued its first unequivocal reaffirmation of the strategy of democratic enlargement that has guided Western thinking since the collapse of the Iron Curtain two decades ago.
Speaking in Paris, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reminded us that NATO and EU enlargement created an unprecedented degree of stability and security in the eastern half of the continent, that Russia too had benefited from this stability, and that it was critical that Europe’s doors remain open to further enlargement.
When I started teaching International Relations in Natolin in 2002, all the college’s students were infused with the hopes stemming from the EU’s enlargement to Eastern Europe.
On May 1, 2004, I celebrated EU enlargement with my students.
The deep reason for this particular argument is the EU's looming enlargement, which will take the membership from 15 to 25 countries in May 2004.
So after enlargement there will be six large and 19 small member states.
These include the generalization of majority voting, enlargement of the European Parliament's role, the notion of public proceedings for the Council of Ministers (making it almost like a senate), the introduction of the possibility of withdrawal from the Union, and even the possibility of treaty ratification by majority.
Some Americans now maintain that NATO enlargement makes no sense.
Furthermore, NATO enlargement might allegedly be resented by a certain large Euro-Asian state and would cost taxpayers money.
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