CER Podcast: Is the EU ready for enlargement?

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast Camino Mortera-Martinez, head of the Brussels office, joins Charles Grant, director of the CER, and Heather Grabbe, senior advisor at the Open Society Foundation, to discuss the prospect of EU enlargement. They talk about the likely timeline of the accession process, the countries with prospects of joining and which of these will struggle to meet the EU's criteria. Camino and Charles then debate whether the Lisbon Treaty will be used for this next round of accession or if treaty change might be required.

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because an integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:29.9	Hello and welcome to the CR podcast. Today, coming to you from basically all across Western Europe.
0:35.8	I am Camino Mordera-ertel Martinez. I'm head of the
0:38.8	CR's Brussels office and I'm talking to you today from a remote French village. So that thing you
0:44.7	hear is indeed a cow moving in French. But let's go to Brussels. In Brussels, everybody's
0:50.8	talking and thinking about enlargement. EU capitals seem on boards, including previously
0:56.6	an enthusiastic ones like Paris, Berlin and Madrid. Most governments and the EU institutions
1:03.5	believe that enlargement cannot happen before the European Union reforms the way it functions.
1:09.0	Is the momentum behind enlargement real? Are
1:12.3	governments sincere when they say they want enlargement? How many countries may be joining the
1:17.9	European Union in coming years? And when? And what do we talk about when we talk about reform?
1:23.2	So to help me entangle this and other related questions, I've called two of Europe's leading experts on both enlargement and reform to join me on the podcast today.
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