THE EUROPEAN UNION’S ENLARGEMENT PREDICAMENTS IN THE LIGHT OF BRITISH MEDIA REPORTS

Authors : Salahi R SONYEL

Pages : 1-10

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Publication Date : 2002-09-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Brussels is optimistic that preparations for enlarging the European Union EU by the year 2004 are proceeding smoothly and that the overriding political imperative of enlargement will remove all barriers. All existing members agree that enlargement is a dominant issue and that the addition of several central and eastern European states would bring the Continent’s Cold War division to a symbolic end. Yet, the realities of what Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle calls “bread and butter politics,” threaten to overshadow the “lofty rhetoric” of a united Europe.1 According to Rory Watson of The Times newspaper, behind the veneer of confidence is a growing awareness that a series of obstacles lie ahead, any of which could delay, or even derail, “a centuries-old dream of a peaceful, united continent.
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