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Developments in the European Union

Abstract

Along with monetary union, the Eastern enlargement of the European Union is one of the defining issues of European integration in the 1990s and into the new millennium. The addition of up to 11 applicant countries — ten Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) plus Cyprus — will have a profound impact on the character and functioning of the EU. Enlargement will affect the structure and operation of the EU’s decision-making institutions, the Union’s budgetary framework, and the design of key policies such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Structural Funds. It will also affect the EU’s internal political cohesion and balance and its overall identity and sense of purpose. The precise impact of Eastern enlargement on the EU will be determined by a number of crucial decisions regarding whom to admit, when, and how, and internal institutional and policy reforms. As the chapter was written many of these decisions remained to be made, yet the process of debate and negotiation was well underway.

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  1. Michael Baun
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Sheffield, UK

    Laura Cram (Lecturer in Politics) (Lecturer in Politics)

  2. Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA

    Desmond Dinan (Associate Professor, Visiting Fellow) (Associate Professor, Visiting Fellow)

  3. Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael, The Hague, Netherlands

    Desmond Dinan (Associate Professor, Visiting Fellow) (Associate Professor, Visiting Fellow)

  4. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Neill Nugent (Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration) (Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration)

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Baun, M. (1999). Enlargement. In: Cram, L., Dinan, D., Nugent, N. (eds) Developments in the European Union. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27572-4_14

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