Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE)

The Team of University Duisburg-Essen has been/continues to work very much on the future of EU enlargement. The following are examples for enlargement projects of UDE:

Publication:

Enlargement and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals
This book analyses Member States’ and EU neighbours’ national visions for the enlargement of the European Union (EU), highlighting 41 national histories, policies, and corresponding public perceptions of European integration. In a geopolitical context in which Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine has renewed the impetus for EU enlargement, national views vary considerably on the timing, conditions, and reforms necessary to welcome Eastern neighbours and the Western Balkans countries into the European family. Moreover, EU enlargement policy is not only an investment in peace and stability; it has also become a political tool in response to the exploitation of interdependencies and illiberal pressures. This book presents concrete policy recommendations to national governments and the EU on how to move forward productively.

Editors Michael Kaeding (InvigoratEU coordinator), Johannes Pollak, and Paul Schmidt (InvigoratEU Advisory Board Member)

Learn more: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-43234-7

Two steps forward one step back: what shapes the process of EU enlargement in South-Eastern Europe?

This article by Oliver Schwarz was published in the Journal of European Integration in 2016.

Learn more: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07036337.2016.1203309

How should the EU grow? The current enlargement policy.

By Prof. Michael Kaeding, published in march 2024.

Even if Europe is still busy coming to terms with the enlargement rounds of the past decades and the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, the current geopolitical constraints require quick and new political responses to the EU’s enlargement policy. On the other hand, the necessary reforms and modernisation of the EU internally and of the candidate countries into liberal democracies will take time. This obvious dilemma is the starting point for a necessary discussion in all European countries about how EU enlargement policy must be reformed in order to take the future of the European Union into its own hands. In doing so, the respective national characteristics must be taken into account, both within the EU and between the candidate countries. Voters must be brought on board everywhere, which is perhaps one of the most important tasks.  And as if that were not challenging enough, the window of opportunity for reassessing EU´s enlargement policy is extremely narrow.

Learn more: https://www.bpb.de/546717

Panel Discussion „The Future of EU Enlargement“

On April 18th a panel discussion with Prof. Michael Kaeding (UDE), Prof. Boštjan Udovič  (University of Ljubljana), Prof. Danijela Jaćimović (University of Montenegro) and Dr. Oliver Schwarz discussing the future of European enlargement will take place at UDE.

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