This will be another Europe

The study examines the issues facing the enlarged Union of 25 Member States, notably the distribution of power and the post-Iraq war divisions within the enlarged EU.

10 new Member States will join the EU on 1 May 2004, and others are expected in 2007. Will the EU be able to integrate all these new members? Can it withstand the revolution of numbers and the revolution of nations? This attempts to answer these questions by analysing the main phases of European integration and proposing of what Europe should be in 2004.

The paper argues that Europe cannot be strong without strong institutions. The European Convention offers an historic opportunity to find a long-term solution for the institutional architecture of the EU. The paper insists that the greatest need for this exists in the area of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, where the Iraq crisis brought to light serious disagreements.

Thefull paperis available from the website of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.