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Towards a New EU Enlargement
And then they were 36?

The European Commission’s Enlargement Package 2023

Joint conference European Commission Representation in Copenhagen & Think Tank EUROPA

9 November 2023, 3-5pm

Venue: Nationalmuseet, Glassalen

Each year the European Commission presents an enlargement package which assesses the state of play and the progress made by candidate countries and potential candidate countries on their respective paths towards the European Union. This year the assessment is expected with more excitement than usual as the Commission might recommend opening membership negotiations with some candidate countries, notably Ukraine.

But becoming a member of the European Union is not a simple task. First, a candidate country must fulfill a number of criteria, and secondly on its side the EU also has to be ready to enlarge.

This conference will present the Commission’s enlargement package 2023 and discuss how the last big enlargement in 2004 took place and what is different this time around.

Speakers include: Gert Jan Koopman, Director General, DG NEAR (on videolink), Dr. Lykke Friis, director Think Tank EUROPA, German Ambassador to Denmark, Pascal Hector, French Ambassador to Denmark, Christophe Parisot, Sinne Conan, Finans Danmark, Niels Lindberg Madsen, Landbrug og Fødevarer and Johan Moesgaard Andersen, Dansk Metal. 

Preliminary programme:

14:30             Welcome and coffee

15.00             Presentation of the Commission’s 2023 enlargement package                                    Gert Jan Koopman, Director General, DG NEAR  (videolink) (EN)

15.30             Q&A

15.45             Key recommendations of the Franco-German Paper on EU                                        Institutional Reform and the French perspective on enlargement (EN)
                      Ambassador Pascal Hector 
                      Ambassador Christophe Parisot
                      

16:15:            Panel: Danish Views on Enlargement  (DA) 
                      Sinne Conan, Finans Danmark                            
                      Johan Moesgaard Andersen, Dansk Metal
                      Niels Lindberg Madsen, Landbrug og Fødevarer 
                     
16.50             Concluding remarks and the way forward – what is different this time?                        (DA) Dr. Lykke Friis, director Think Tank EUROPA

The conference which is moderated by Lykke Friis, director Think Tank EUROPA, will be in English and Danish