The European Neighbourhood Chair of the College of Europe in Natolin organised a seminar titled "Future Enlargements of the EU: Fast-track, Staged or the Usual?" featuring Prof. Steven BLOCKMANS, Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Brussels-based think tank CEPS, Prof. Roman PETROV, Head of International and European Law Department, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla, and Prof. Adam ŁAZOWSKI, Scientific Coordinator of the European Neighbourhood Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin.
EU Enlargement has, once again, become a geo-strategic matter that needs robust attention. During the seminar the speakers tackled key questions around the EU’s enlargement strategy, discussed whether the EU should adopt fast-track or staged accession models—or maintain its traditional path.
About the speakers:
Prof. Steven BLOCKMANS is an Associate Senior Research Fellow, and previously Director of Research and Senior Research Fellow, at the Brussels-based think tank CEPS. He is also Senior Fellow at ICDS (Tallinn), Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges, Natolin, Tirana), and Editor-in-Chief of the European Foreign Affairs Review.
He is the author of Tough Love: the EU’s relations with the Western Balkans (Asser Press 2007) and The Obsolescence of the European Neighbourhood Policy (Rowman & Littlefield 2017) and has (co-)edited 20 volumes, including The EU’s Role in Global Governance (Oxford University Press 2013), The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (Edward Elgar 2018) and a trilogy on Democracy in the EU (Rowman & Littlefield 2020).
Prof. Dr Roman PETROV is Head of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2011 and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 2010.
Prof. PETROV has been Head of International and European Law Department at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2015. Conducted post-doctoral research as Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and awarded research visiting fellowships at University of Heidelberg (Germany) (Alexander von Humboldt research fellow), University of Oxford (UK), Ghent University (Belgium) and other international universities.
Prof. Adam ŁAZOWSKI is Visiting Professor and Scientific Coordinator of the European Neighbourhood Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin. He is a Professor of EU law at the Westminster Law School, University of Westminster as well as a Visiting Professor at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
His research focuses on EU pre-accession policy, EU External Relations, Internal Market, EU Criminal Law as well as withdrawal from the European Union. Prof. ŁAZOWSKI has published extensively in academic journals (Common Market Law Review, European Law Review, Public Law, Journal of European Public Policy) and in edited volumes (Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Hart Publishing).