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Europe as a Soft Power
14/07/2009
Author : Center for EU Enlargement Studies (Hungary)
Center for EU Enlargement Studies
 
On April 2nd 2009, the Center for EU Enlargement Studies in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung held an international conference entitled “ Europe as a Soft Power”.

The underlying assumption of the conference was that soft power of the European Union has played an important role in its enlargement policy as demonstrated by the transformation of Central and Eastern European countries. In addition, the EU increasingly sees itself as a soft power that should use norm diffusion as a source of influence in its relations with its neighbors and around the globe. However the gloomy prospects of further enlargements question the leverage and potential of EU soft power in the future and call for further examination thereof.

The conference addressed various aspects of EU foreign policy – enlargement policy, neighborhood policy, EU-Russia relations – and analyzed the type and degree of influence that it asserts. In addition to a conceptual overview of EU soft power, each panel examined relevant policy issues and analyzed the role that the EU plays in various conflict situations, i.e. in the Georgia-Russia conflict or the energy conflict.

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