The Challenges Of EU Enlargement

The bigger the EU, the greater the benefits

The EU s enlargement policy is not merely some expensive, expendable annoyance it is a vital component of the EU s security and outward projection of power.

What was the impact of the recent expansion of the EU?

The EU s asylum policy has broken down.

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Now a policy of enlargement enlargement of the core of market economies and democratic States is being launched.

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Public sentiment towards EU enlargement is negative.

Through progressive enlargement the EU has gained the benefits of size.

Its policy of opting out keeps Britain on the sidelines of the EU.

The EU's foreign policy should be guided by the following goals

Importance of EU enlargement as a standardizing regulator A challenge to demonstrate the importance of standards in a transparent society.

The EU will, instead, need a large, managed immigration policy.

EU enlargement and European neighbourhood policy Need for modernisation

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The EU has become a key player in thesuccessive rounds of multilateral negotiations aimed at opening up worldtrade.

The U NECE Multiplier Points also received copies of the CD ROM Norms, Standards and Practices for Trade Facilitation and International Business , containing information related to UNECE norms, standards and practices in the areas of trade, industry and enterprise development and presenting this work in three languages English, French and Russian.

Member States will consider expanding the network of embassies in Central Asia.

This means that EU policy must be tailor made for individual countries.

One danger of the recent setbacks is a halt to EU enlargement.

This is understandable, given the scope of enlargement and the need for an internal transformation of the Union.

But support for enlargement is fading everywhere, right on the brink of accession.

Overall, there were positive expectations with regard to whatof what enlargementwhat enlargement would bring for labour.

EU enlargement will give Russia direct access toone, larger, harmonised EU market of some 450 million people.

There is another, less obvious, reason why the EU's policy on migration is flawed.

There is now a striking asymmetry in the process of institutional adaptation necessary for EU enlargement.

The new Neighbourhood Policy of the EU will have an inevitable impact on the other UNECE member States located at the border of the enlarged EU.

The 2004 EU enlargement resulted in the Kaliningrad oblast of Russia becoming an exclave surrounded by EU territory and bordering on Poland and Lithuania.

Needless to say, a common EU foreign policy should not be anti American.

Rural policy in the EU is too often reduced to income guarantees for the farming community.

In principle, the Commission ought to be slimmed down after enlargement, with fewer Commissioners than member states.

While the EU s vision of wider Europe relies on soft power, economic integration, and long term institution building, Putin s wider Russia policy depends on intimidation and violence.

EU waste policy aims to foster environmentally sound waste management.

Instead, the EU's direct involvement in the Balkans should lead it to rethink its enlargement strategy.

It is now the EU s smaller states that gain the most from wider and deeper European integration.

Others pointed to at the potential consequences of enlargement for energy markets and for forestry products.

The UNECE region is affected by the unprecedented 2004 EU enlargement and the prospects for EU accessions in 2007 8, and the opening of negotiations with Turkey.

Given their experiences with the drawn out enlargement process, most candidate countries are leery about the motives of some large EU countries.

The first session of the Forum focused on the consequences of the EU enlargement for the non acceding countries, EU member States, regional financial institutions and other regional organizations It also looked at and the the implications of enlargement for the UNECE''sUncle's activities.

What this means in principle can be stated concisely the EU needs a common foreign policy.

Such a policy would stop trade between Iran and the EU in its tracks, and Ahmadinejad knows it.

Similar policy approaches also exist at the municipal level in several countries within the EU EFTA region, as well as in the US.