The Network on Political-Economic Dimensions of Enlargement and New Membership of the European Union was approved by ESF Executive Council in November 1995 for a three year period. In autumn 1998 it received an extension and it was completed in 1999.
The Chairman was Dr. Bernard Steunenberg from The Netherlands.

Main topics discussed during the Network on Political-Economic Dimensions of Enlargement and New Membership of the European Union are: economic and political benefits of enlargement of the European Union; the extension of integration; institutional changes in central and east European countries to become a member of the European Union; effects of enlargement; administrative and legislative policies; bureaucracy in the Union.

The dossier contains correspondence on the management of the Network; Network proposal; description of team research plans; NEMEU midterm report, 13 March 1998; "Widening the European Union", by Bernard Steunenberg; proposal for publication, 1998; NEMEU report, 5 Oct 1999.
It contains the papers: "Game Theory, power and the EU Council of Ministers" by Sven Berg, for the first meeting of the NEMEU Network council, held in Strasbourg, on 18-20 April 1996; "Visegrád countries: political profiles in 1995" by František Turnovec.
The dossier also contains completion report by Bernard Steunenberg; evaluation; correspondence on budget.

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