“NATO is at a crossroad. Enlargement is the last priority for the Alliance,” Jeffrey Simon, an expert on NATO Central European expansion at the National Defense University’s Institute of Strategic Studies in Washington. Dr. Simon said that at a regional security conference “Bulgaria in NATO in 2002.” According to Simon, NATO’s top priority was its restructuring. He pointed out that the individual capability of aspiring members is paramount. According to him, the gap between NATO members and the candidates has widened, instead of narrowing. Simon added that differences exist inside NATO as well, saying that new members like Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary do not do enough of a good job. “We hav a lot of problems with them,” Simon said, adding that the capability of the new nine aspirants was worse than that of the three new members.

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