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EurActiv (17 April 2024)

By Alexandra Brzozowski

With some EU member states and sectors likely to be exposed more than others by the European Union’s future enlargement rounds, a new fund is needed to compensate for imbalances, according to a draft report by former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta, seen by Euractiv.

“Setting a clear direction for the integration of new members into the EU represents one of the main challenges for the next years,” Letta states in the report, naming the area as one of the three key choices the EU has to make.

The bloc’s focus on pursuing enlargement should not lie “merely on the goal itself but on the careful execution of its implementation” and “more specifically on the methods and timing of such expansions”.

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