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Is it benefiting all EU countries, and will it persist as EU enlargement proceeds?
Partly for this reason, EU enlargement is superior--at least for financial markets--to political unification, which encourages vested interests to lobby at the central level.
The EU can buck this anti-market trend by promoting structural reforms in southern European countries and focussing on enlargement to increase economic competition.
Viewed from the perspective such truths provide, the European Union's eastward enlargement, for example, is highly desirable not despite but because it may lead to migration from the new member states to the old.
These shifts will be gradual, persistent, and less predictable than what investors had come to expect during the deceptive calm of the euro’s first decade, when the currency union’s establishment, together with EU enlargement and liberalization, appeared to create a stable and benign environment.
Expansion is SolidarityNowadays it is often alleged that the European Union’s sense of solidarity was put in jeopardy, if not shattered outright, by its enlargement to take in the countries of central and eastern Europe.
It is, of course, true that enlargement has fundamentally changed the Union and given rise to new problems and policy concerns.
Finally, the enlargement process itself is also manifestly a symbol of European social, civic, and cultural unity.
By 2014, the EU’s “big bang” enlargement in 2004 could be hailed as a success story, having contributed significantly to swift and peaceful economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe.
No formal date for Nato enlargement exists, but with every statement from Western leaders, the date for opening the alliance to East Europe's democracies moves closer.
A year later, foreign ministers began to study the modalities of enlargement.
Both Nato enlargement and EMU remain controversial.
To postpone enlargement beyond 1997 would not only disappoint eager East Europeans, it would confirm a widespread notion in Moscow that the West will always bend to pressure.
The damage caused by not meeting the self-imposed deadline would be much greater than the problems enlargement would create.
In both the case of Nato enlargement and EMU, therefore, deadlines will have to be met because they have been set.
It is also experiencing a profound economic crisis, which erupted around the same time that the Lisbon Treaty – aimed at accommodating EU enlargement – was finally approved.
They seemed to forget that the European project’s underlying motivation was political, not economic, which led them to rush into enlargement and set unrealistic goals.
In addition, some member governments, like those of Germany and Austria, have demonstrated serious anxiety that EU enlargement will incite a flood of job-seekers from Central and Eastern Europe, and made clear that they will demand a long delay in granting free movement of labour to any new member state.
Will the picture change after enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe?
Yet it is equally arguable that enlargement right up to the fringes of Russia, will compel more foreign policy co-ordination.
Enlargement of the EU into Central Europe is itself a colossal act of geo-strategic policy.
The EU's Catch-22COPENHAGEN: Worrying signs are mounting that the European Union’s enlargement process is losing steam.
Enlargement will undoubtedly pose many practical problems.
When I listen to the grand, visionary speeches about Europe’s future put forward recently by some EU political leaders - President Chirac’s recent speech to the Bundestag being the most otherworldly - I am struck by the thought that these visions are worthless if designed to cover up a lack of enthusiasm to face the challenges of enlargement.
Now is the time to give concrete direction and pledges regarding enlargement.
Until the crisis hit last year, the enlargement had proven to be a profitable business for Old Europe: high growth rates in most of New Europe injected energy into Old Europe’s sagging economies, much to the surprise of those who had predicted that enlargement would become an economic millstone around the neck of the established member states.
The leaders of the well established European democracies must explain to their own voters that enlargement has greatly benefited them, and that it will also be to their benefit to share the responsibilities and costs of steering the hardest-hit countries through the crisis.
Any sober appraisal of what has actually happened since expansion would put the problems in perspective: when enlargement was agreed, the combined size of the ten new members’ economies roughly equaled that of the Netherlands.
When asked, “What does the EU mean to you personally,” 50% of citizens in the 15 countries that were EU members before enlargement in May 2004 say “the euro” – the second most common response (just behind “the ability to travel, study, and work anywhere in the EU”).
The Continent reunited in liberty: Germany on October 3, 1990;Europe with the great European Union enlargement of May 1, 2004.
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