This ex post evaluation addresses the EU/EC’s pre-accession assistance provided to the twelve countries that acceded to … the European Union as part of the ‘fifth wave’ of EU enlargement, i.e. Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia … unprecedented enlargement in terms of scope, of complexity and its diversity; extending EU membership from 15 to 27 countries …

The mandate for this study was to undertake an evaluation of EU external action as managed by three DGs: DG RELEX, DG … 2010, and a geographical scope that is essentially global with the exception of the EU enlargement countries. Stakeholders … from both inside and outside the EU, in both partner countries and global organisations, were to be covered. The main …

action programmes that might be useful in the design and formulation of the EU’s next multi-annual budget. In addition, the …