The EU's enlargement has also made consensus-building more difficult, multiplying the national rivalries and tensions.
The reduced rebate was negotiated by former Prime Minister Tony Blair to help fund the EU's eastward enlargement.
Now that enlargement has greatly slowed, a new equilibrium between Europe, Russia and America may emerge.
Enlargement will make it more and more difficult for the Union to decide anything by unanimity.
For sure, some strides have been taken towards enlargement, but hardly thanks to events in Gothenburg.
The 1996 National Security Strategy of Enlargement and Engagement reaffirmed the BUR force-sizing construct.
That was negotiated by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, to help fund the EU's eastward enlargement.
Though many Europeans have doubts, they look at enlargement resignedly, as an American show.
He said it would be better to review whether controls were needed six months after enlargement.
EU's population is considerably larger than America's 380m against 280m and will grow further with enlargement next year.
And it lacks the energy as well as the cash to drive the enlargement process forward.
An enlargement of the safe zone requires a new style and method of command.
Alison Cottrell of PaineWebber, an investment bank, points out that enlargement will bring far greater divergence.
It is disingenuous to claim, as some do, that without Lisbon no further enlargement is possible.
Nato enlargement tend to follow a sterile pattern of warnings, tantrums, sulks and grudging acceptance.
Its new military doctrine paints NATO, and particularly its enlargement, as the biggest threat to Russia.
IGC, enlargement: it would add up to a formidable agenda at the best of times.
No doubt more studies will be carried out, especially when enlargement is less distant.
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The answer is that the Irish rejection has shaken confidence in the enlargement procedure on all sides.
UN, so it would be unwise to ignore the real threat that France now poses to enlargement.
Second, Mr Putin has heavily toned down the Kremlin's objections, now saying only that enlargement is pointless.
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Yet some parts of the commission have been the doughtiest fighters for both free trade and enlargement.
ECB's main message to euro-zone wannabes at an enlargement seminar in November was: rush at your peril.
In some ways, indeed, the constitutional debate has become a way of avoiding a debate over enlargement.
On Friday member states finally agreed an EU constitution that will ease the bureaucratic pressures of enlargement.
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EU's commissioner for enlargement met Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist, to discuss Turkey's record on free speech.
All sides deny that (and Norway, like the other Nordic countries, is generally an enthusiast for enlargement).
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