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Enlargement Day

2004/05/01

The accession day is a big day for the OSI's EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program! EUMAP was created in 2000 to monitor the impact of the EU accession process on human rights and rule of law issues in Europe. Past EUMAP monitoring has focused in particular on the ten CEE accession countries. At the same time, however, EUMAP's recommendations consistently emphasised that in order to be genuine and effective, human rights standards (and the monitoring of these standards) must be applied to all countries equally; current EU members as well as future ones. EUMAP has taken up its own recommendations and will continue to monitor selected issues both in EU member States (new and old) and in countries at all stages of the EU accession process.

On the 1st May, the decade-long process of EU accession for the eight CEE countries finally comes to an end. However, amid all the hopes, fears and expectations on all sides at this time, one question is looming - what next? Have all the problematic issues been resolved, or even identified, prior to enlargement? Will the enlarged EU be able to truly function effectively as a single entity? Most importantly, what lessons should candidate and prospective candidate countries, as well as current members and EU institutions, take away from this largest phase of enlargement in the history of the EU?

To mark this historic moment, EUMAP.ORG is pleased to announce new articles focusing on the future Europe beyond enlargement.

Cheers! (And now what?) The protection of minorities in the post-enlargement Union
John Packer
"On 1 May 2004 Europe (at least those fortunate to have made it in the Union) will rejoice. This is an occasion worthy of celebration and well deserved by all those whose efforts have contributed to its realisation so far. But, like any political project, it is only as good as what is delivers each day and, in this respect, how it is viewed by its constituents. In fact, the European project is unfinished and on-going."

The Enlarged European Home Needs Enhanced Networks of Watchdogs
Dr. Ryszard Skrzypiec
"This paper attempts to show, on the example of Poland, that the enlarged European Union needs strategies for supporting local civil society "watchdogs" currently grappling with multiple problems in the new EU member States."

Unification via Diversification – what does it mean to be “united in diversity”?
Gabriel N. Toggenburg
"The first of May stands for an enormous "more". Ten more EU member States, 75 million more EU citizens, and the Union's physical size is extended by 738,000 square kilometres. But enlargement does not result in "more of the same". Quite to the contrary - Eastern enlargement is a process of diversification."

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