Konrad -Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. www.kas.de / brasil ONLINE DOKUMENTATION 10 years of EU-Brazil relations with an enlarged Europe Elena Lazarou 1 Bruno Theodoro Luciano 2 Felix Dane 3 The year of 2014 marks the anniversary of a decade since the greatest enlargement of the history of the European Union. Simultaneously, ten countries from Central, Eastern and Mediterranean Europe, namely three former Soviet Republics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), four former satellite countries from the Soviet Union (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary), one country for the former Yugoslavia (Slovenia) and two Mediterranean islands (Cyprus and Malta), accomplished the admission criteria to integration and became formal State-members of an even more integrated and empowered European Union (EU). An enlarged Europe needed to adapt these new interests and preferences from the Eastern countries both within EU’s internal game of power and regarding its relation with third countries. Concurrently, these new members had to deal with the challenge of integrating themselves with a political and economic union which plays a global role. The inevitable Europenization of these countries foreign policy resulted in a dramatic expansion of the agenda of foreign relations of the recent admitted countries to the EU. Moreover, the existing European institutions and liaisons create 1 Assistant professor at the Center for International Relations at Getulio Vargas Foundation, CPDOC/FGV. 2 Konrad Adenauer Fellow in European Studies at the Center for International Relations at Getulio Vargas Foundation, CPDOC/FGV. 3 Representative da Fundação Konrad Adenauer no Brasil