Who is for and who is against further enlargement? Access snap-shot analysis about the state of the enlargement debates in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland and Sweden. Download manuals on the individuals and institutions that shape these debates.

How to think about EU enlargement? Here we introduce leading thinkers on the enlargement process and their work: on the EU’s leverage, on rethinking Europe’s invisible hand, on taking measure of Europe’s Great Transformation… and on making the case for a new European narrative.

EU enlargement is controversial, and has always been. Explore some of the most contested issues, including:

• Visa-free travel for the Western Balkans
• The perpetual laggard? Bulgaria’s quest to meet the environmental acquis

20 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain it is time to look back at the process which brought the countries of former communist Europe into the EU, and at the people who made it happen. Read about, listen to and watch our section on “member state builders” – politicians, civil servants and civil society activists who wrote the latest chapters of European history.

Background document library

Close to 600 key documents on EU enlargement in electronic form.

ESI reports on enlargement

Media reactions

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