CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Box 1: Chronology of enlargement
Chapter 2: The enlargement agenda
Importance of enlargement
Box 2: Enlargement in the EU Treaties and
Council Conclusions
Principles of enlargement
The current enlargement process
Box 3: Current candidate and potential candidate
countries
Figure 1: Map of the EU and its neighbourhood
Financial assistance for enlargement
Box 4: The Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance
(IPA)
Conditionality
Post-accession conditionality and monitoring
Credibility and pitfalls of the enlargement
process
A perception of 'raising the bar'
A perception of 'closing the door'
Chapter 3: Impact on candidate countries
and new Member States
Figure 2: Comparative GDP per capita in purchasing
power standards
Requirement to join the euro and Schengen
areas
The euro area
The Schengen area
Political and institutional impact
Chapter 4: Impact on Member States and the
Union
Economic impact
Policy impact
Institutional impact
Figure 3: Concluded codecision procedures
in the European Parliament
Free movement of persons
Chapter 5: Enlargement in the medium term
Pace of future enlargement
Scope of future enlargement
Potential barriers to enlargement
Enlargement fatigue
Absorption capacity
The EU institutions and policy-making
The EU budget
Accession fatigue
Innovations
Chapter 6: Possible alternatives
A 'waiting room'
Chapter 7: Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of members and declarations
of interest
Appendix 2: List of witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for evidence
Appendix 4: Glossary
Appendix 5: Chapters of the acquis communautaire
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hleu
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7219 5314)
References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:
Q refers to a question in oral evidence.
Witness names without a question reference refer
to written evidence.
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