THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE CHALLENGE OF ENLARGEMENT

Year 1997, , 147 - 178, 29.12.1997

Sevilay Kahraman

https://doi.org/10.29228/mjes.325

Abstract

The objective of the article is to assess the impact of enlargement on the evolution
of the relationship between deepening and widening of the Community. The article
deals with the enlargements of the 1970s and 1980s, the 1995 enlargement and
the probable Eastern enlargement of the EU and how they affect the process of
deepening of the Community. Having presented the evidence that widening has so
far been accompanied by modest deepening via limited institutional reform which resulted
in the eventual extension of the powers of the EC's institutions, it concludes by
arguing that the future enlargements of the EU will succeed only if widening is reconciled
with deepening in a Community model of differentiated integration.

Keywords

-, EU, ENLARGEMENT, INTEGRATION

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