The Impact of Conflicts in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood on the European Union’s Enlargement Policy

Miszlivetz, Áron James (2024) The Impact of Conflicts in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood on the European Union’s Enlargement Policy. In: The 2024 Hungarian EU Presidency. Ludovika Egyetemi Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 427-440. ISBN 9789636530624; 9789636530617; 9789636530631

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Abstract

Conflicts in the European Union’s neighbourhood have a major impact on the response to integration and enlargement of the EU institutions and Member States. In the first decade since the first Hungarian Presidency in 2011, increasingly complex and unpredictable security challenges have emerged at the borders, including migration and hybrid warfare, negatively affecting the admission of new members to the European Union. The continent needs to provide the candidate countries of the Western Balkans with a new European perspective, accelerating and deepening political, economic and institutional relations with the neighbouring region. The European institutional system needs to be ready for a 30+ membership, in which the 2024 Hungarian Presidency can play a major role. The credibility of the enlargement policy, which can also be considered a domestic priority, complemented by a new methodology, could create new opportunities for economic and political unification of the Western Balkan region. Hungary has been an advocate of the European perspective of the candidate countries already during the 2011 EU Presidency, however, in the last decade enlargement fatigue has become more visible. Nevertheless, the new enlargement methodology could lead to new members by the end of the decade, for which the European Union should be prepared. Ultimately, during the 2024 Presidency Hungary must take forward the European perspective, thus contributing to the security of the EU and the European continent.

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