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The treaty is but a necessary step to successful EU enlargement and further progress on Europe’s construction; it is not an end in itself.
Then there are rising tensions over plans by the United States to based a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as the growing likelihood that further NATO enlargement will include Georgia, the increasingly prosperous neighbor with which Russia has fractious relations.
Enlargement of the European Union to include the first batch of applicant countries is now within reach as more and more chapters are closed in the bilateral negotiations.
The biggest remaining hurdle concerns the political will among today's EU members to set the actual dates for enlargement.
The driving force, however, can only be an understanding that EU enlargement must be regarded as a win-win situation for all countries involved directly or indirectly - including Russia.
EU enlargement - and the process of involving Russia - must not be slowed by a lack of political will and vision among European leaders.
Block Benefits, Not ImmigrantsAs EU enlargement approaches, people across Western Europe fear a flood of job-seeking immigrants from the postcommunist accession countries.
Munich's Ifo Institute expects about 2.5--3.3 million migrants to Western Europe during the 15 years following EU enlargement.
But drawing a line under the enlargement process would be both a missed opportunity for the EU and a cruel blow to those countries in the Balkans and elsewhere for whom the prospect of membership is an important incentive for reform and renewal.
Nor should today’s uncertainties become an excuse to call into question the need to continue and complete the process of EU enlargement.
Given that Russia’s own new military doctrine presents NATO as a potential threat, its leaders can logically claim that NATO enlargement undermines Russian security.
So why then should a weakened security pact now be a likelier candidate for enlargement?
(Has the Russian government which opposes both NATO’s enlargement and NATO’s interference in the Balkans been blind to the inherent contradiction?)
If NATO moves ahead with enlargement, it must also take seriously the task of establishing an institutionalized dialogue with the Russian Federation.
And those who already are its members can now no longer delay what they have sought to avoid for too long: to make enlargement possible without isolating Russia.
If anything, the risks of a US-Europe split will be reduced rather than increased by the EU's recent enlargement.
In fact, none other than George Kennan, the originator of America’s Cold War containment strategy, opposed NATO enlargement in the 1990s on precisely these grounds.
Even Mikhail Gorbachev, on the 25th anniversary of the Wall’s demise, accused the West of not keeping the promises it made in 1989, instead taking “advantage of Russia’s weakening” in the 1990s to claim “monopoly leadership and domination of the world,” including through NATO enlargement.
Public sentiment towards EU enlargement is negative.
In fact, a majority of states and citizens would prefer to stop enlargement – the most important and effective means by which Europe is capable of projecting power – once and for all.
Exhausted by the frustrating climate negotiations in Copenhagen, European leaders seemed not to be in the mood for questions about EU enlargement.
Indeed, given the domestic political mood in the 27 member states, they are deeply convinced that discussing further enlargement would win them no bouquets.
But this assumes that the governments of EU member states finally accept their political responsibility and, instead of pandering to rampant enlargement fatigue, take decisive steps against it.
The prospective EU enlargement in the Western Balkans further complicates the problem.
Such an approach would not by itself prevent the EU’s dissolution or promote enlargement to less-developed countries.
And the EU leadership has made clear its enthusiasm for a deal; when Akinci visited Brussels in early July, he was welcomed by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, European Parliament President Martin Schultz, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, and the EU’s neighborhood and enlargement commissioner, Johannes Hahn.
The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall will be commemorated in November, and it has been five years since the European Union’s “Big Bang” enlargement.
The first issue concerns the continuation of enlargement.
For the pre-Big Bang EU-15, enlargement significantly contributed to their growth through investment opportunities and increased foreign demand: 7.5% of the older member states’ exports went to the newcomers in 2007, up from 4.7% in 1999.
On the contrary, it should finalize further enlargement: the economic crisis has clearly demonstrated that the EU cannot afford black holes on the map of Europe.
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