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The fall of the Berlin wall was a momentous event, but the enlargement slowed down the momentum in the EU and weakened and negatively influenced the integration of the European Union and its institutions after the treaty of Maastricht.

#EU enlargement served more American interests than European interests. Zbigniew Brezinski refers to this in his book, "The Grand Chessboard, American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives" as he stated