European Union - Fifty-Third Report
Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 7 November 2006.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
FOREWORD—What this report is about
Chapter 1: Setting the scene
Box 1: Enlargement in the EU Treaties
Structure of this Report
Box 2: Chronology of Enlargement
Box 3: The Accession Process
Chapter 2: Current attitudes towards enlargement
Economic and social consequences are the
main concern
Table 1: Percentage of people who agree that
enlargement…
Preferences for certain candidates
Table 2: Percentage of people in the EU—25
who support the accession of…
The referendum "threat"
How engrained are anti-enlargement attitudes?
Table 3: Do you think your country has benefited
from EU membership? (Results given as a percentage of those asked
who felt EU membership had been positive for their country)
Chapter 3: The impact of the last enlargement
The economic consequences of enlargement
Table 4: Basic indicator for the new Member
States 2003
Enlargement and globalisation
The movement of labour
Table 5: Resident working age population
by nationality, 2005, in per cent of total
The political impact of enlargement
The Council of Ministers
The European Commission
The European Parliament
The quality of decision-making
The impact on EU policies
The balance between small and large countries
Lessons for future enlargements
Chapter 4: Absorption capacity and the borders
of Europe
The Copenhagen accession criteria
Box 4: The Copenhagen criteria for EU Membership
The borders of the EU
Absorption capacity
Chapter 5: The political context for future
enlargements
The future of the EU institutions
Variable geometry and the notion of a core
Europe
The future of the EU budget
Chapter 6: Candidates and potential candidates
The Western Balkans: The risk of returning
instability
Table 6: Basic indicators for candidates
and potential candidates
Croatia: Fast-track into the EU?
Turkey: A special case?
Chapter 7: Possible alternatives to enlargement
and the cost of non-enlargement
Possible future candidates
The European neighbourhood policy
Alternatives to membership
The costs of non-enlargement
Chapter 8: Conclusions and Recommendations
Current attitudes towards enlargement
The impact of the 2004 enlargement
Absorption capacity and the borders of Europe
The political context for future enlargements
Candidates and potential candidates
Possible alternatives to enlargement and
the cost of non-enlargement
Appendix 1: Call for Evidence
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Recent Reports from the Select
Committee
ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE
6 June 2006
13 June 2006
20 June 2006
27 June 2006
4 July 2006
10 July 2006
11 July 2006
10 October 2006
17 October 2006
23 October 2006
Written Evidence
NOTE: References in the text of the report are as
follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
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