Back To Europe: Central And Eastern Europe And The European Union

by Henderson, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781857288872
• ISBN10: 1857288874
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With post-communist states applying to join the European Union, this book examines the challenges of Eastern enlargement, focusing on international relations, European institutions, economics of integration, and domestic politics.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of tables and figures
Notes on contributors
Chronology
Map
EU policy to central and eastern Europe	p. 3
Security and democracy: the EU and central and eastern Europe	p. 23
Enlargement and the Common Foreign and Security Policy: transforming the EU's external identity?	p. 37
The NATO factor: a spanner in the works of EU and WEU enlargement?	p. 53
The challenge of EU enlargement: EU and CEE perspectives	p. 71
The pre-accession strategy and the governmental structures of the Visegrad countries	p. 89
Agricultural, Structural Policy, the Budget and eastern enlargement of the European Union	p. 107
EU accession and labour markets in the Visegrad countries	p. 129
"Whatever happened to the environment?": environmental issues in the eastern enlargement of the European Union	p. 151
EU enlargement and co-operation in justice and home affairs	p. 169
Central and east European views on EU enlargement: political debates and public opinion	p. 185
Polish domestic politics and accession to the European Union	p. 203
Slovakia and the democratic criteria for EU accession	p. 221
Slovenia: from Yugoslavia to the European Union	p. 241
The Baltic states and EU enlargement	p. 259
Future perspectives	p. 277
Glossary and abbreviations	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 285
Index	p. 297
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