Future EU Enlargements—Opportunities and Dilemmas
Year: 2025

This chapter focuses on the EU’s future enlargement plans. In a time of war and instability, the enlargement plans have gained new momentum, and the chapter addresses the question of how the EU can (and should) manage the risks and opportunities associated with a new wave of enlargement. It first presents various incentives for an EU enlargement: economic, geopolitical, and normative. It then examines the formal and informal procedures of the enlargement process, which has become increasingly le