Pushing Back the Boundaries : The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe

by Edited by Mike Mannin

• ISBN13: 9780719052156
• ISBN10: 0719052157
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-12-10
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

The relationship between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe is one of the key issues for the future integration of Europe. This volume explores EU-CEE relations since 1989 and the conditions that have shaped them, focusing on the contribution by the EU to political, economic and social change within CEE countries in the context of a gradually emerging "European" policy. Part I examines EU-CEE relations. Part II concentrates on four case studies--the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and Poland. The book concludes with two detailed chronologies of EU-CEE relations and a summary of the current Agenda 2000 proposal for EU enlargement.

Author Biography

Mike Mannin is Principal Lecturer in European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at Liverpool John Moores University.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vii
Contributors	viii
Preface	x
Abbreviations	xiii
Map	xvi
Part I The EU and relations with CEE
EU--CEE relations: an overview	3	(28)
Mike Mannin
Policies towards CEEC	31	(39)
Mike Mannin
Economic transformation in CEE	70	(28)
Terry Caslin
Laszlo Czaban
Democratic governance in CEE: the conditions for change	98	(34)
Mike Mannin
Women and transformation in CEEC: challenging the EU women's policy?	132	(26)
Charlotte Bretherton
Environmental issues in CEEC transformation: environment as a challenge to enlargement	158	(25)
Andrew Francis
Security issues in the wider Europe: the role of EU--CEEC relations	183	(34)
Charlotte Bretherton
Part II Country studies
The Czech Republic: the economic road to transformation	217	(33)
Brian Newton
Linda Walsh
The Slovak Republic: on the edge of Europe	250	(26)
Brian Newton
Linda Walsh
Hungarian economic transformation: gradual progress towards accession?	276	(19)
Laszlo Czaban
Poland: the return to Europe	295	(54)
Andrew Francis
Appendices
I Chronology	319	(22)
Linda Middleton
II Summary of Agenda 2000 documentation and enlargement strategy	341	(8)
Index	349