CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Fox, Freeman Socrates |
|---|---|
| Title | Enlargement at Stake: How Can Future EU Member States Be Kept on the Path of Reform? |
| Summary | There is currently a widespread perception among both the public and the elite in Europe that the most recent European Union accession process, which culminated in ten new entrants in 2004 and two more in 2007, was not a complete success. The general view is that the ten former communist countries were not ready for accession, and, once in the EU, they abandoned the stringent legislative reform process that had begun years before and that was designed to prepare them to be model constituents of the newly enlarged EU (De Pauw 2007). This paper will build on the work done by Trauner, and, by extension, Sedelmeier, in understanding to what extent Romania and Bulgaria are complying with their agreements to continue reforming after accession, and what factors influence the outcome of the EU‟s attempts to hold them to those agreements, with a focus on corruption. The method used will be analysis of the literature on the subject and the updated Eurobarometer results that have been released since the Trauner study was published. |
| Supervisor | Bathory, Agnes |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/fox_freeman.pdf |
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