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"If member states can be represented by bricks in a wall, then the more bricks there are the more cement you need to hold them together" (Photo: Wikipedia)

How big can the EU be?

How big should the European Union be? This question, childlike and beguiling, lies at the root of a whole series of issues with which Europe's leaders are now grappling. It is fundamental to concerns over enlargement; about how the EU takes decisions; to neighbourhood policy; to institutional reform; to future budgets. In short it informs, one way or another, the whole process of the future European construction and of European integration.

It is also the one question that is being do...

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"If member states can be represented by bricks in a wall, then the more bricks there are the more cement you need to hold them together" (Photo: Wikipedia)

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