The Challenges Of EU Enlargement

Problems of Security Council enlargement

Europe is a peculiar combination of geography and history, but the boundaries of the EU and thus the prospects for its further enlargement are determined by its absorptive capacity and the adaptive abilities of candidate countries. Is enlargement the only effective policy of stabilization and peace?

Switzerland strongly favours enlargement of the Security Council.

Enlargement of the membership of the Executive Committee

Enlargement of the Committee on Non Governmental Organizations

Before enlargement, it was politically incorrect to discuss possible waves of migration to the West, as EU politicians saw this as an obstacle to the enlargement process. Now that enlargement has taken place, it is easier to discuss migration objectively.

(b) Enlargement of the membership of the Security Council

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We support enlargement to produce a representative Council, but enlargement achieved in a way that is compatible with the principles of democracy, fairness, flexibility and accountability.

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The cooperation is developing well and further enlargement is expected.

This will enable a substantial enlargement of United Nations interventions.

Well, what do you expect to find in the enlargement?

All five of the States that launched the initiative strongly support enlargement of the Security Council, although we do not agree among ourselves on the modalities of such enlargement.

That fully demonstrates the complexity of the question of Security Council enlargement.

My country is in favour of an enlargement based on objective criteria.

There is evidently no more consensus on working methods than on enlargement.

We see enlargement and working method reform as complementary, equally important processes.

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1996 212 Enlargement of the membership of the 9 Feb. 1996 VIII.A 298

33. An enlargement of the Security Council will necessitate amendments to the Charter.

Slovenia supports progress in both aspects of Security Council reform enlargement and working methods.

Enlargement of the Committee on Non Governmental Organizations (E 1997 90 and Corr.1)

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This is a right of Africa, irrespective of United Nations reform or Security Council enlargement.

Say, uh, did you make the enlargement of the photograph of this forged check here?

Azerbaijan strongly believes that reform of the Security Council should not be limited to its enlargement.

Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Enlargement of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

It is true, as the delegation said, that in the past, perhaps enlargement was sometimes privileged.

Now I would like to refer to the reform of the Security Council and its enlargement.

Last year apos s enlargement of the CD apos s membership will also contribute to this.

But enlargement fatigue among the member states continues to muddy this optimistic forecast. Although more than three quarters of the EU s member states are former enlargement countries, the Union s expansion is no longer viewed as an unalloyed success story.

Reform will have to involve both enlargement in the permanent and non permanent categories and working methods.

Finland therefore supports an enlargement of the Council in both the permanent and the non permanent categories.

The 2004 European Union (EU) enlargement stimulated useful exchanges of information but full harmonization was considered difficult.

The possible enlargement, or universalization, of the membership of the Council was also envisaged by some participants.

We would support further consideration of how enlargement might reasonably be managed, perhaps in a phased way.

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