The European Union in the wake of eastern enlargement Institutional and Policy-Making Challenges

by Croci, Osvaldo; Verdun, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780719065132
• ISBN10: 0719065135
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

What will happen to the EU in the wake of enlargement? What are the institutional and policy-making changes in light of enlargement? This book, newly available in paperback, deals with the theoretical, conceptual and historical processes that led to European Union enlargement. It discusses the effects of enlargement on selected European Union policies (agriculture, single market, foreign, security and defense policy, immigration), and looks at the effect of the institutional reforms that were made at Amsterdam and Nice, as well as considering the significance of the debates on the Constitution.

Author Biography

Osvaldo Croci is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Amy Verdun holds the Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Victoria, Canada

Table of Contents

Introduction

Enlargement in perspective

The challenges of European Union – where are we today, how did we get there, and what lies ahead?

Can a reformed European Union bear the weight of enlargement?

Network governance within and beyond an enlarged European Union

Policies and policy-making

The Common Agriculture Policy: challenges in the wake of Eastern enlargement

Breaking with tradition: liberalization of services trade in Europe

The evolution of the Common Foreign and Security Policy: a case of an imperfect ratchet fusion

Governance in an enlarging ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’

Changing the ground rules: reframing immigration asylum and security in the European Union

Institutional change

The Amsterdam and Nice IGCs: from output failure to institutional choice

Negotiating the Nice Treaty: a joint but failed search for efficiency building

Towards finality? An assessment of the achievements of the European Convention

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