Alessandro Ieranò, Project Research Assistant at the South-East Europe Programme (ELIAMEP), explores the interplay between EU enlargement disputes and minority rights in his new article for Contemporary Southeast Europe.
Drawing from the Beleri case and Hungary’s ongoing veto on Ukraine, he observes how, in the context of bilateral disputes between a member (kin) state and a candidate (home) state, enlargement paralysis is a ‘lose-lose’ outcome for all parties involved. Above all, for national minorities, which risk to find themselves caught in the crossfire of politicisation and securitisation.
As he argues, this stems from the of lack of safeguards and alternative-dispute resolution mechanisms in the current enlargement framework, which has turned veto powers from an atomic option into a default practice. This not only enables the politicisation of kin-minorities in candidate countries—adding further straining bilateral relations—but also jeopardises enlargement at the moment when it is most needed. To address this challenge, he proposes a set of policy recommendations aiming at restoring the credibility of the enlargement promise through mutual guarantees to both ‘gatekeeping’ kin-member states and ‘obstructed’ candidate-home states, while preventing the securitisation of national minorities.
You may read the essay here.
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Global cooperation is under stress. Finance, climate, security, and technology shocks overlap, while major powers contest rules and public budgets shrink. Yet these shifts potentially widen agency for parts of the Global South. This paper asks how the current moment should be viewed: does it represent a crisis or opportunity, and what does workable cooperation look like in a polycentric world? We use the 2025 Financing for Development conference in Seville as a point of reference for our reflections. Against this backdrop, we argue that a managed, issue-based new multilateralism is emerging, organized around ‘pockets of effectiveness’, or bounded, likeminded coalitions that work on concrete tasks. While universal multilateralism is likely to remain challenging, practical cooperation is feasible on some issues. If ‘the who’ is likeminded coalitions of countries, then ‘the how’ of new multilateralism is found in these ‘pockets’.
Global cooperation is under stress. Finance, climate, security, and technology shocks overlap, while major powers contest rules and public budgets shrink. Yet these shifts potentially widen agency for parts of the Global South. This paper asks how the current moment should be viewed: does it represent a crisis or opportunity, and what does workable cooperation look like in a polycentric world? We use the 2025 Financing for Development conference in Seville as a point of reference for our reflections. Against this backdrop, we argue that a managed, issue-based new multilateralism is emerging, organized around ‘pockets of effectiveness’, or bounded, likeminded coalitions that work on concrete tasks. While universal multilateralism is likely to remain challenging, practical cooperation is feasible on some issues. If ‘the who’ is likeminded coalitions of countries, then ‘the how’ of new multilateralism is found in these ‘pockets’.
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