Despite their special interest in areas like energy security or neighboring policy, the East European countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 have not yet become agenda-setters in Brussels, according to a new study, published by Euractiv. Speculation was rife before the last wave of enlargement to twelve new members that the EU decision-making machinery would end up being jammed.
But no major difficulties have emerged, claims an ambitious study presented by the Political Science Department at Slovakia's Comenius University.
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