Enlargement of the European Union: Stop or Else? The influence of Eurosceptics in the European Parliament

The invasion of Ukraine has once again brought the issue of European Union enlargement to the fore. Prospects are shaky considering that the influx of Eurosceptic MEPs into the European Parliament beginning in 2014 deepened divisions on this issue and caused a shift in the debate towards positions that are more hostile to further enlargement – at least at the rhetoric level.
These are the main findings from an article published in West European Politics by Natasha Wunsch, Assistant Professor at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), with Marie-Eve Bélanger (University of Geneva).

Read the interview with Natasha Wunsch in Cogito, the research magazine of Sciences Po (interview conducted by Véronique Etienne, May 2023).