The Road to the European Union Volume 1

by Rupnik, Jacques; Zielonka, Jan

• ISBN13: 9780719065972
• ISBN10: 0719065976
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-08
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

This book, the first of two volumes, covers the preparation for accession to the European Union in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The chapters focus on the conceptual challenges facing the European Union as a result of the enlargement process, such as institutional reform, Europe's new borders and the cultural identity of an enlarged Union. Each chapter also identifies and analyzes the problems facing the individual East European applicant from a comparative perspective. It examines the causes and implications of the Czech-Slovak break up, and the two nations' separate road to the European Union.

Author Biography

Jacques Rupnik is Director of Research at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (C.E.R.I.) Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques Paris and Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Jan Zielonka is Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: enlargement and the study of European integration	p. 1
Joining Europe together or separately? The implications of the Czecho-Slovak divorce for EU enlargement	p. 16
Slovakia's democratic awakening	p. 51
The Czech road towards a consolidated democracy	p. 69
The Czech Republic as an EU candidate: strengths and weaknesses	p. 87
The European Union's policies towards Slovakia: carrots and sticks of political conditionality	p. 98
The economic criteria for EU accession: lessons from the Czech and Slovak Republics	p. 113
Who is in, who is out? Citizenship, nationhood, democracy and European integration in the Czech Republic and Slovakia	p. 138
Return to Europe? Patterns of Euroscepticism among the Czech and Slovak political parties	p. 164
Czech perceptions of EU membership: Havel vs. Klaus	p. 180
Local political elites' perceptions of the EU	p. 199
Germany and the enlargement of the European Union to the Czech Republic	p. 220
Cross-border co-operation between Germany and the Czech Republic	p. 250
Chronologies	p. 271
Select bibliography	p. 275
Index	p. 289
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