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From the early 1990s onwards, the issues raised by the admission of new members were central to the internal development of the European People’s Party (EPP). There were, for instance, the changes in the Italian party system and within the French centre-right, as well as the 1995 enlargement of the European Union (EU). Probably the biggest challenge was the prospect of further enlargement to 20 or even more Member States, most of them former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe. This,in turn, led to plans to include the Western Balkans. It also triggered an eastward enlargement within the EPP that included new full members,associate members and parties with observer status.
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Jansen, T., Van Hecke, S. (2011). Chapter Four: Eastward Enlargement. In: At Europe's Service. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19414-6_4
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