EU enlargement beyond membership: a contribution to the ”Emerging Europe” News and Analysis Series
Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania, alongside Cyprus and Ireland, represent the only EU member states outside of the border-free Schengen area. In early July, the European Parliament (EP) voted overwhelmingly in favour of Bulgaria, Croatia, and Romania joining the Schengen area.
New publication! With Frank Schimmelfennig in JEPP: Rebordering Europe?
Enlargement is the most significant debordering policy of the European Union. In an analysis of debates in the European Parliament and a sample of member state national parliaments, this article examines whether EU enlargement discourse has been characterized by a politicized rebordering process since the mid-2000s. We find that enlargement discourse has become more ‘rebordered’ in the course of the 2010s.