The EU Committee's inquiry will look at the motivations and prospects for future enlargement, and its potential consequences. As well as asking what impact Europe's economic problems have had on the EU's enlargement agenda, the Committee will ask what impact enlargement has had on the Union, new Member States, and those who hope to one day join. The Committee is interested to look at enlargement's effects on a number of different fronts: economic, political, constitutional, legal, and social.
The Committee will be holding oral evidence sessions from November to January as part of this inquiry, and transcripts of these sessions will be made available on this page. These sessions will be advertised in advance in the "news" section of this website. The written evidence that is received by the Committee will also be made available in due course.
Members of the Committee declared the following interests as being relevant to this inquiry: