Pernille Rieker
Director of the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), specializing in European integration and EU foreign and security policy.
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Oct 9, 2026
5:26
Pernille, from the perspective of re-engages research in the candidate countries, how do vetoes and blockages affect the credibility of the enlargement process?
Pernille RiekerGUEST
Thank you so much, Mariem, and thank you for the invitation to participate in the podcast.
Pernille RiekerGUEST
I will start by saying that Re-Engage has not really studied the voting rules as such.
Pernille RiekerGUEST
What we have done is to spend almost three years in six candidate countries, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia.
Pernille RiekerGUEST
in the Western Balkans and Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, looking at how EU democracy promotion actually works on the ground and how citizens see the EU.
Pernille RiekerGUEST
And from that perspective, the main cost of vetoes is not really the delay as such.
10 MINS LATER
16:12
What would you recommend for mobilizing public support in the member states?