EU Enlargement to Northern, Central and Southern Europe since 1989
Year: 2025

For two decades, enlargement of the European Union (EU) constituted one of Wilton Park’s most important series. Major conferences were convened in some 20 countries including most candidate states. They marked the advent of Wilton Park as a sought-after international forum and partner which could operate around the world. The series constituted an important Track II process inputting into the formal accession negotiations, and supported British foreign policy objectives to extend UK (and EU) pol