My work as the President of the EP Delegation to Iceland, Norway & Switzerland and the EEA Joint Parliamentary Committee

• 'The European Parliament and the Northern Dimension' (5 September 2006, Reykjavik).

• Is it time for an Arctic Charter? Perspectives on governance in the Arctic Region, Speech to the Seventh Conference of Arctic Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, Kiruna, Sweden, 3 August 2006 .

'Forgotten Enlargement: Future EU Relations with Iceland, Norway and Switzerland' 2nd edition

Diana Wallis MEP with Stewart Arnold and Ben Idris Jones

The first edition of Forgotten Enlargement was written as the European Union was preparing to expand to 25 member states. That has now occurred and the EU is already looking towards further enlargement in the Balkans. Turkey's application will cause a considerable debate and relations with Russia and the Ukraine are being actively discussed. Yet nowhere in this vision appear those three west European democracies currently outside the EU, Iceland, Switzerland and Norway.

Through the EEA Agreement, Norway and Iceland have already taken up 80 per cent of the acquis communautaire and Switzerland is taking an increasing amount of EU legislation.

For these three countries the EU remains an unavoidable player. This publication examines the performance of EFTA and EEA Agreement. As the EU develops, those institutions under which they operate become ever more inadequate, endangering democratic legitimacy.

Forgotten Enlargement advocates a flexible and open dialogue between the EU and these countries and shows that, as Member states of the EU, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland would have much to contribute.

This second edition provides a thorough revision of the original text, dealing with the consequences of national elections in Iceland and Switzerland and the changing debate in Norway.

"Forgotten Enlargement is a short book which says a great deal" The Times of Malta 18 Dec 2002.

The book has been produced with the support of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.