文档介绍：EuropeanEuropean Union:Union: IssuesIssues
I. Enlargement
II. Single Currency
III. Institutional Reform
IV. Europe as a Superpower?
. EnlargementEnlargement
• 10 countries in
Central and Eastern
Europe in May 2004
• Bulgaria & Romania
expected by 2007 or
2008
•Turkey began
ascension talks in
December 2005
. SingleSingle CurrencyCurrency
• Transaction costs, Price stability, Efficiency
• Inflation/Growth (‘Stability & Growth Pact’)
• External Value
. InstitutionalInstitutional ReformReform
• The ‘Democratic Deficit’
• The EU Constitution
• Widening v. Deepening
The Convention on the
Future of Europe…
all for nothing????
. AA EuropeanEuropean Superpower?Superpower?
• The Meaning of Power
• Europe as a “Soft Power”
–Test Cases (Iran; Russia)
–The Need for “Hard Power”
• Europe as an Economic
Power
• What is “Europe”?