Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283044 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comment No. 1/2024
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
Now that the European Council has given the green light to opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, it is clear that the Union is no longer simply showing symbolic solidarity with neighbours invaded or threatened by Russia. Rather, a new chapter of enlargement policy is beginning in the shadow of war. After Turkey and the six Western Balkan countries, the third enlargement area is formed by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in Eastern Europe. Ever since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Brussels has understood enlargement to mean expansion into strategically important regions. Geopolitical demands for rapid accession are gnawing away at the existing enlargement doctrine, according to which there can be neither compromises on the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership nor shortcuts along the path to acces­sion. What is more, accession issues could soon enter the perilous waters of war diplomacy when lasting security for post-war Ukraine is at stake. In a bid to overcome the dilemma between geopolitics and integration policy, the European Commission is currently developing ideas about how new members can be integrated step by step.
Subjects: 
European Council
European Commission
European Union
EU accession negotiations
Ukraine
Moldova
Georgia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Russia
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Document Type: 
Research Report

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