GEO-POWER-EU Talks – Episode 8: Can the EU Get Enlargement-Ready?

GEO-POWER-EU Talks – Episode 8: Can the EU Get Enlargement-Ready?

The eighth session of the GEO-POWER-EU Talks podcast examines how EU enlargement works, why it so often stalls, and what the EU needs to change to get it moving again. The episode draws on the GEO-POWER-EU report “Reforming EU Enlargement Governance and Advancing a Principled Gradual Integration: A Three-Track Decision-Making Model and Priority Accession Reforms” and the European Commission’s Communication “Preparing for a wider Union”.

Hosted by Asuman Kübra Baş (Head of Projects and Research, European Neighbourhood Council), the discussion brings together Prof. Nikolaos Tzifakis (Coordinator of GEO-POWER-EU and Professor of International Relations, University of the Peloponnese), Dr. Panagiota Manoli (Associate Professor, University of the Peloponnese, and Research Fellow, ELIAMEP) and Prof. Daniela Schwarzer (President of the Hertie School). They reflect on where the report and the Commission agree and where they differ, from decision-making and vetoes to the rights of new members, and also discuss Ukraine’s path and the Commission’s latest enlargement package.

Listen to the in-depth discussion here: https://soundcloud.com/geo-power-eu/geo-power-talks-can-the-eu-get