Why are Member States of the EU so positive towards an enlargement of the EU to Central and Eastern Europe ?

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Abbreviations

CAP Common Agricultural Policy

CEECs Central and Eastern European Countries

EU European Union

GDP gross domestic product

SMEs Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

UK United Union

Why are Member States of the EU so positive towards an enlargement of the EU to Central and Eastern Europe ?

Introduction.

Each countries of the European Union has its own opinion towards the enlargement. The EU has its opinion, but after each Member State has its personal point of view concerning the enlargement of the European Union. Moreover each Member State has its own foreign policy towards the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC), and they have some particular relationship with each of them. Basically, as Steven P.McGiffen says that external relation between a Member State and the applicant countries is generally determined by geographical proximity. For example Germany tends to be interested in the accession of its immediate neighbours : Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. There is also the importance of History. In fact through decades, Europeans' countries have created relations between each over, in particular during the World War Two and since the end of the Cold War. Thanks to those