Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Perspectives and Role of the East and West German Länder
Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Perspectives and Role of the East and West German Länder

Author(s): Vladimír Bilčík
Subject(s): Politics, Political history, International relations/trade, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Germany; EU; enlargement; East; policy;
Summary/Abstract: Eastern enlargement of the European Union has been a dominant theme of European policymaking in Germany. After the Meeting of the European Council in Copenhagen in June 1993, that officially invited Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) to join the European Union, Germany took the goal of enlargement one step forward under its EU presidency in the second half of 1994.1 Germany's commitment to the European project together with the changing domestic context after unification in 1990 made eastern enlargement an important aim of Germany's foreign policy.

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