Potential Benefits and Problems of Enlarging the European Union to Include Eastern European Countries

This essay will be analysing the potential benefits and problems of enlarging the European Union to include Eastern European countries. This will involve discussing the likely impact that enlargement would have on existing members and the Eastern European countries which will be joining. This will also concern the effect on issues such as common agriculture policy (CAP), services and migration between countries.
The potential benefits and problems of enlarging the EU are likely to come from many directions. Ranging from the beneficial outcomes of increasing economies of scale, to the potential danger that poorer EU nations will have to receive large budgets from existing EU nations.
Evidence will be used in order to produce a viable conclusion to this essay. The main point being whether Total Economic Integration (explained further down in this essay) can be reached by the added variable of the EU increasing in size. These problems and benefits will be distinguished.
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