EU enlargement
EU enlargement EU enlargement must be viewed in context of the worldwide globalisation process, which brings both challenges and opportunities; states are no longer in a position to solve these difficult problems alone. ... The enlargement process represents one of the biggest challenges facing the European Union over the past years. The first wave of EU enlargement referred to British, Irish, Norwegian, Danish entry to it. ... After meeting of Heath with Pompidou in Paris, France at least jettisoned its opposition to enlargement in British direction. Then Heath tried to assure British population that there must not be any fear about national sovereignty and it will be “sharing and an enlargement of individual national sovereignties in the general interest”. ... But due to Pompidou popularity people endorsed the EU enlargement. ... But some of member-states concerned about southern enlargement. ... The new negotiations on enlargement began with Portugal in 1978 and Spain in 1979. ... At the beginning France tried to block the enlargement in Spanish direction because of economic competition.