Climate Change and enlargement: Some key issues
Article from: OGEL 1 (2004), in Climate Change
Introduction
The European Union is bound to take in eight new member states, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe, in the course of 2004, followed by Bulgaria and Romania somewhat later.[1] Turkey is officially a candidate but negotiations have not yet started with this country. Climate change and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol have been a minor issue of enlargement negotiations for basically two reasons. The first was that other issues such as financial transfers, agriculture, free movement and the internal market were more important both from EU and accession country perspectives. ...