ABSTRACT
During four weeks in 2003, one of the smallest countries in the world blocked the agreement that would enlarge the European Economic Area by ten new countries, already approved to join the European Union in May 2004. The government of Liechtenstein attempted to use the occasion to resolve a longstanding disagreement with two of these incoming EU member states: Czechia and Slovakia. Liechtenstein was successful in getting noticed but secured little else. This chapter critically reviews this episode, its historical context and the political fallout that ensued.
