Towards an enlarged European Union

While many have argued that the EU has been experiencing a sort of ‘enlargement fatigue’, it has instead been experiencing a ‘lack-of-reform fatigue’ which has clearly shown the limits of what the European Union can achieve under the current governance mechanisms. While the answer to that should have been a reformist agenda that delivered the adequate changes in EU governance and decision-making to make the Union fit for a future enlarged Europe, instead national governments have simply procrastinated and, at points, even stalled the beginning of membership talks. This is in spite of significant advances in many candidate countries, and with national governments sometimes making use of their veto powers for dubious reasons more related to electoralist interests at home than actual concerns about accession. This has jeopardised the prospects for enlargement in the near future and, in some countries, has even shelved the odds of EU accession for the upcoming decades, which in turn will result in diminished opportunities for the youth in those countries due to the exclusion from EU programmes and regulatory frameworks.

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