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- Title
How to make EU enlargement work? A grass-roots approach to strategic preparations.
- Authors
Lavrelashvili, Teona
- Abstract
Enlargement is back on the EU agenda. Leaders have broken long-established foreign policy taboos by green-lighting accession talks with Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, and by awarding EU candidate country status to Georgia. This bold step has elevated the expectations of the existing candidate countries, instilling renewed optimism in the Western Balkans Six. At the same time, the EU has recognised the need to carry out its own reforms to be prepared to integrate potentially 10 new member states. However, given the complexities of EU institutional reform, coupled with the uncertain political context, expectations of EU enlargement may lead to disillusionment. This article argues that the EU should not tie its progress on institutional reform too closely to its enlargement policy and that it needs to take a grass-roots approach to enlargement. It should focus on strengthening horizontal cooperation, enhancing efficiency and increasing public involvement in the EU enlargement process.
- Subjects
UKRAINE; LEADERS; INTERNATIONAL relations; TABOO; EUROPEAN Union
- Publication
European View, 2024, Vol 23, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
1781-6858
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/17816858241246660