Two founders of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics think tank, Hans Kribbe and Luuk van Middelaar, set out the “difficult choices” that the European Union will have to make if it is to function with 36 Member States, in an essay published at the end of September in the run-up to the European summit in Granada (see separate news item).
The two researchers identify five fundamental changes that EU enlargement will bring about. Firstly, the way in which decisions are taken, particularly...