Tag Archive: EU enlargement

What future for EU enlargement policy?

The Enlargement has been on the EEC/EU agenda all along its history and was believed to be its “most successful” policy. Although enlargement policy was built on values and rules, geopolitics have traditionally been a strong driving force behind it, while tension between widening and deepening has always been present. The fifth enlargement was instrumentalised by […]

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Ενημερωτικό Σημείωμα: «Οι νομικές προκλήσεις της ένταξης της Κροατίας στην ΕΕ»

Στο Ενημερωτικό Σημείωμα 19/2013 η Δρ Φιλίππα Χατζησταύρου, ερευνήτρια του ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ και εξωτερική συνεργάτις του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών αναλύει τις νομικές προκλήσεις της ένταξης της Κροατίας στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση. Μεταξύ άλλων, εστιάζει στις τάσεις της κοινής γνώμης και εξηγεί τις διαφοροποιήσεις που έχουν παρατηρητηθεί.

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ELIAMEP Briefing Notes 16/ 2012: Albanian politics: A “prehistory” of a coming political clash

The fierce rivalry between the two largest Albanian parties has marred the country’s image and has slowed down Albania’s EU accession process. As the European Union continues to monitor the Democrats’ and the Socialists’ efforts to hammer out a deal to improve Albania’s electoral system, another political confrontation seems to be developing. The simmering new […]

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TGAE: Combining Pragmatism and Vision – The Future of EU Enlargement

Paper published by Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Stavros Costopoulos Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, and Ruby Gropas, Research Fellow at ELIAMEP, in Think Global – Act European (TGAE): The Contribution of European Think Tanks to the French, Czech and Swedish Trio Presidencies of the European Union, Paris 2008. The report is the outcome of a project directed by Notre […]

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EU Enlargement: How Much it Will Cost and Who Will Pay

The “cost of enlargement” and its distribution among Member States are the most sensitive and controversial issue in the enlargement exercise. Predictably the budgetary cost and, more precisely, the cost for the EU budget is at the center of the debate. Enlargement-related strains on the budget could upset delicate equilibria among Member States, while they […]

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