Enlargement & neighborhood policies

Syllabus

1. 'The EU enlargement policy from merit-based process to geostrategic investment' (8h)

Intervenant : Alexis VAHLAS, REDS Unistra, directeur du SESII et ancien conseiller politique (POLAD) de l'OTAN et de l'Union européenne

I. Alleged normative diktat

1. Accession treaty as Holy Grail of enlargement policy

2. Treaty and European Council conditions

3. Councils decisions, Commission assessments & Parliament consent

II. Evolution of political narratives

1. Enlargement fatigue for EU Member States (2004-2022)

2. "We all win" approach for 44 European States (since 2022)

3. Panacea of "parallel tracks of enlargement and EU reforms" (30 Mar. 2024)

III. Official and potential candidates lost in translation

1. Old believers: Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia-and-Herzegovina, Kosovo

2. Newcomers:  Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and why not Armenia Azerbaijan, Belarus?

3. Drifters: Turkey, Iceland, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland

2. 'The EU neighbourhood policy between the ring of friends and the ring of fire' (7 h)

Intervenant : Jarosław JANCZAK, professeur à la Faculté de sciences sociales et culturelles de l'Université européenne Viadrina à Francfort-sur-l'Oder

I. Theoretical explanation of EU’s relations with neighbours

1. International Relations and EU grand theories explanation of the external involvement

2. Geopolitical models and geostrategies of the EU

3. From normative power towards hard power?

II. Between European Neighbourhood Policy and dimensionalization of the EU

1. Southern, Northern and Eastern Dimensions of the EU – towards customization of the external relations

2. European Neighbourhood Policy as a tool of (non)enlargement

III. Changing world order and the EU’s relations with neighbours

1. Russian aggression against Ukraine as catalyst for enlargement and neighbourhood policy

2. EU as a global actor, EU as a regional power