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The enlargement from a Czech point of view
Perceived a long time as the most obvious form of « return back into Europe » proclaimed in 1989, the process of enlargement of the European Union, seen by the Czech Republic, seems at the same time necessary politically, economically and socially, and even inevitable, even if the cost can prove to be high. Into that, the orientation of the public opinion is not truly changed. However, with the lengthening of the duration of the process of enlargement, the number of interested people falls, (...)
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Prospects of Romania’s European integration
The end of communist regimes in Eastern Europe has provoked an important debate about the European future of this region. At the beginning of the 1990s, the ex-communist countries were treated as a whole ; their diversity, their political, economic, cultural, historical, ethnical or social specificity, were not taken into account. But EU enlargement is a too complex process to be judged thus. It involves many actors and varied perspectives. An individual dialogue will soon replace the (...)
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The Baltic countries and the enlargement of the European Union
Scheduled for 2004, the EU enlargement to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania represents the ultimate outcome of the strong Baltic governments’ commitment towards irremediably anchoring these former Soviet territories to the European democratic space. The enlargement also questions the relationship between Europe and Russia, through the presence of important Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltic region and the moving eastward of the EU borders, which are becoming a Euro-Russian border. (...)
