Study on France and EU Eastward Expansion

The large-scale eastward expansion of the EU has brought great opportunities and challenges to the EU's management. France, as a core country of the EU, is not enthusiastic about the eastward expansion, fearing that it will weaken its influence in the EU, but it voted in favor of the EU's eastward expansion. The reasons behind this include: the eastward expansion of the EU is an inevitable trend, it meets the strategic needs of Germany, and it is timely to partially realize the immediate interests.