On November, 8 Eurocommission adopted the strategy of EU enlargement policy development, which provides for a system of special reports on EU readiness for further integration of new members. General Commissioner on EU Extension Olli Ren stated the following: “Enlargement is the essence of EU’s soft power influence on promoting peace, democracy and well-being in Europe. This project demands for overwhelming support of Europeans. That is why we have to elaborate a new approach to enlargement, the one which would recognize the strategic necessity of the process allowing the Union function in a proper way.”

On the basis of the analysis of previous enlargements’ mistakes and gains the Committee proposes to enhance the quality of accession procedure through a number of concrete measures:

• The possibility of integrating every single country will be accessed at every stage of the procedure of accession. This evaluation will cover the influence of the accession to EU bodies, budget and internal policy and, especially, on agricultural and structural policy.
• The outcomes of economic and political dialogue will be touched upon during deeper negotiations
• Court reform, restructuring administrative bodies, fighting corruption and organised crime must be the primary elements of any accession procedure.

Every important decision on the accession issues should be passed within the framework of democratic procedures. European Commission also proposes to distribute information on possible accessions more broadly among the citizens of EU, as well as to establish a better civil dialogue between the old members and the applicant-states via granting the basic documents of the process public status.