Abstract
This year the European Union increased its membership from fifteen to twenty-five states, thus greatly extending its territory and increasing the size of its population and the aggregate economic potential of this organization, which is one of the most influential centers of power in the world. It should also be noted that compared with the previous stages, the current wave of the European Union’s enlargement is characterized by a higher level of integration. In particular, the formation of the economic and monetary union is nearing completion, and significant progress toward creating a political union and strengthening cooperation in security is being made. In this respect, the current enlargement of the EU is accompanied by significant changes in the structure and mechanism of the foreign economic activity of the countries that have joined it. As should have been expected, this stage of development in this structure, which is unprecedent-ed in the quantitative and qualitative sense, has given rise to heated discussions not only in Europe, but also beyond it.
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