• How do you assess the impact of the 2004 enlargement?
• What would be the main lost opportunities for the EU if it did not enlarge to the East
• What could have been handled better during the “big bang” enlargement?”

These were the questions we have asked the guests of the conference on the EU Enlargement which took place on the 11th of April in the Czernin Palace, Prague. More about the event itself is available here. We had the pleasure to talk to:

🇱🇹 Laurynas Vaičiūnas – Chairman, College of Eastern Europe
🇨🇾 Harry Tzimitras – Director, PRIO Cyprus centre, The Peace Research Institute Oslo
🇪🇸Berta López Domènech – Policy analyst, European Policy Centre
🇸🇮 Jakob Štunf – Department for Enlargement and South-Eastern Europe, MFA Slovenia
🇧🇪Jean Louis de Brouwer – Director, Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations
🇩🇪 Barbara Lippert – Director of Research, German Institute for International and Security Affairs