Revitalising EU Enlargement? A New Dawn in EU Accession Post-Ukraine Invasion
Journal: MAP Social Sciences
Year: 2024

In this article, we compare the developments of the enlargement policy after Russia invaded Ukraine to the policy prior to the invasion covering the period after the Big Bang enlargement. The widening policy before the invasion was rather inefficient because the member states governments assessed the importance of institutional binding of new members disparately, which affected the aspiring countries, as the EU appeared to be indecisive regarding the accession of new states. The perception of an