The future of the EU’s enlargement policy

Part of the series "GEG Weekly: Innovative Perspectives on European Affairs"

EU countries will have to decide by December whether or not to open accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova. This 1-hour talk will discuss whether the accession of new member states should be linked to internal institutional reforms, the lessons of two decades of European integration of Central and Eastern European countries, the costs of further enlargement to the East and the candidate countries' vision for future integration.

Speakers:

• Cristina Gherasimov, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Republic of Moldova
• R. Daniel Kelemen, McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
• Lukáš Macek, Director of the Dijon campus of Sciences Po, Head of the Centre Grande Europe of the Jacques Delors Institute
• Nikolaos Tzifakis, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Foreign Policy and the Western Balkans and Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of the Peloponnese
• Maryem Vanden Heuvel, Director General for External Relations, European Council (tbc)
• Jonatan Vseviov, Secretary General, Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (tbc)

This is the first event of a new series of weekly roundtables:

GEG Weekly: Innovative Perspectives on European Affairs

The European Union is at a turning point. The war in Ukraine, climate change, and the future of the EU's enlargement raise the question of its place in the world and of its integration process. This new series of weekly talks aims to offer high-level, transnational, in-depth discussions to address these questions by bringing together high-level scholars, policy experts and highly motivated students.

These talks consist of 1-hour weekly roundtables in English uniting the best of academia, decision makers and European stakeholders in order to better integrate the work of academics and operational approaches.

They are organised by the Groupe d’Études Géopolitiques in partnership with Sciences Po’s Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics and in collaboration with the College of Europe, European Institute at Columbia University, European Centre at the University of Cambridge, European University Institute in Florence, Université Libre de Bruxelles.