Debate of the day

Faced with the Russian threat, should the European Union be enlarged?

Audio 29:30

View of the flags of the 27 members of the European Union at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, October 19, 2021. © Ronald Wittek / AFP

By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

 This is one of Volodymyr Zelensky's hobbyhorses: faced with the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian President is asking for an accelerated procedure to allow his country to integrate the European Union.

In its wake, Georgia and Moldova have in turn submitted an application.

Brussels is faced with a major problem: how to protect these three countries in the context of a complex procedure for joining the European Union and when five States were candidates before the war in Ukraine?

Is emergency integration possible or desirable?

What alternative solutions?

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To discuss:

Sébastien Maillard,

director of the Jacques Delors Institute, co-author of the book "Making Europe in a world of brutes", Fayard editions

Florent Parmentier

, Secretary General of CEVIPOF/ Sciences Po, Associate Researcher at the HEC Geopolitics Center and co-founder of the Eurasia prospective website

Sylvie Matelly,

Deputy Director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS)

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