Enlargement and the New Outsiders
Enlargement and the New Outsiders
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扩张和新的局外人
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2002
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M. Light
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Stephen Leonard White;I. McAllister;M. Light
欧盟的扩大将在欧盟和处于这一进程之外的“局外人”国家之间建立一种新的关系。2000年上半年在其中四个国家-白俄罗斯、摩尔多瓦、俄罗斯和乌克兰-进行的调查发现，对欧盟的态度以及对本国加入欧盟的前景普遍持积极态度。与此同时，存在着高度的不确定性，对欧盟机构的了解程度非常有限。焦点小组证实了这些发现，欧盟和其他国际组织之间经常混淆，并且对自己的国家本身是否是“欧洲人”产生了相当大的怀疑。但有证据表明，更坚定的民主主义者对欧盟和他们自己国家的加入更有热情;更普遍地说，“欧洲性”是根据欧盟成员国特有的文化和生活标准来理解的。如果扩大扩大了这些分歧，就有可能在一个显然一直在克服冷战造成的分歧的大陆内部造成新的分歧。
The enlargement of the European Union will establish a new relationship between the Union and the ‘outsider’ states that lie outside that process. Surveys in the first half of 2000 in four of these states — Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine — found that attitudes towards the Union and the prospect of their own country’s admission were generally positive. At the same time there were high levels of uncertainty, and levels of knowledge about EU institutions were very modest. Focus groups confirmed these findings, with frequent confusion between the EU and other international organizations, and considerable doubt about whether their own country was itself ‘European’. But there was evidence that more committed democrats were more enthusiastic about the EU, and their own country’s admission; and more generally, that ‘Europeanness’ was understood in terms of the kinds of cultural and living standards that were characteristic of EU Member States. If enlargement widens those differences, it is likely to open new divisions within a continent that had apparently been overcoming the differences that were a product of the cold war.