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The global financial crisis has added to an already detectable “enlargement fatigue” in European Union (EU) countries. Now the multiple crises in North Africa and the Middle East have presented the EU with new security challenges. How will these developments affect the accession to the EU by candidates and would be candidates in the East?

 

Paweł Świeboda is President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of London, he served as the EU Advisor to the President of Poland in the years 1996-2000. He then headed the Office for European Integration in the Chancellery of the President. In the years 2001-2006 he served as Director of the Department of the European Union in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he was responsible for EU accession negotiations and subsequently institutional reform in the EU and negotiations on the Financial Perspective.