THE ENLARGEMENT PROCESS: SHAPING A NEW EUROPE

Abstract

For Europe, enlargement is a political imperative and part of our European vocation. Just ten years ago, the Berlin wall came down and Communist regimes collapsed shortly after. The division of Europe has always been artificial. The failure of the liberal revolutions in the nineteenth century, the devastating wars Europe has witnessed in the twentieth century and the Communist regimes created two separate Europes, which we must now unite.