17.04.07 French foreign policy and the limits of Europeanisation.
The changing French position on EU enlargement
NUPI Working Paper 692 | 20 pages.
Discusses the interrelation between French foreign policy and the French policy towards EU-enlargement.
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This article focuses on the changing French position on EU enlargement. The aim of the analysis is to study the interplay between the foreign policy of the EU and the foreign policy of France, but also between the official French foreign policy and the French public opinion. Most of the literature on EU enlargement underestimates the importance of public opinion. This article is therefore an attempt to present a more comprehensive understanding of the changing French position on enlargement by combining a top down with a bottom up approach. By doing this the analysis do not consider whether enlargement is good or bad, but rather how a member state’s position on this issue may change both through a process of Europeanisation and as a result of changes in domestic public opinion.
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