Suspending further accession until the reform of the Union

19^th March 2012

The Chairman of the Robert Schuman Foundation, Jean-Dominique Giuliani has published an article in LeMonde.fr in which he recalls that the Union has grown from its origin adding 21 States at a rate of 3 per year with an acceleration of one new State every 19 months from the first enlargement in 1973 to the most recent in 2007. All of this has been beneficial for the Union, as it has been for the States. But to continue enlarging without undertaking any real reform of governance would probably lead to greater dilution of European unity, and a further weakening of public support and the destruction all of its advantages.

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