Joint Intereconomics/Bruegel Conference in Brussels (hybrid event)
Speakers:
Marek Dabrowski, André Sapir, Tinatin Akhvlediani, Elise Bernard, Ilona Sologoub
What would increase government support around EU enlargement, and what role could membership play in future peace talks?
During two summits in March 2022, in Versailles and Brussels, European leaders expressly declined to grant candidate status or even a membership perspective to Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. While supporters of the expansion called for a recognition of Ukraine’s place in the European family, most governments were skeptical and reluctant to take the process further. Why is that? What would it take to garner more support for the initiation of the expansion process? And what role could membership play in future peace talks? The question of EU enlargement requires an examination of the topic from multiple perspectives.
Contributions by the speakers at the conference are published in Intereconomics No. 4 / 2022.
