The inquiries assembled in this number of “L’Europe en Formation” began from a set of fairly simple questions: How does transformation go on in those countries which recently entered the European Union? Did membership strengthen their capacity and political willingness for reform? Or was the pace of transformation determined by the conditionality which the European Union imposed on candidate countries? How can the European Union enforce compliance without being endowed with a sanction mechanism? Did accession countries fulfill certain demands only under pressure and took the opportunity to back-pedal as soon as being full members of the club?
Table of Contents
Europeanisation after EU Accession: Transformation, Reform, and Compliance in Recent EU Member States, ed. by Matthias Waechter and François Bafoil
Jean-Claude Verez: Le défi de la convergence des modèles sociaux européens dans un contexte de crise budgétaire et d’endettement
George N. Tzogopoulos: Experiencing an Unprecedented Crisis: The Stalemate in Greece
Justyna Schulz: Is the Current Financial Crisis Also a Crisis of the Europeanization Model? Evidence from Poland
Ferran Brunet: Regulatory Quality and Competitiveness in Recent European Union Member States
Dimiter Toshkov: Compliance with EU law in Central and Eastern Europe: The Disaster that Didn’t Happen (Yet)
Aron Buzogány: Accelerating or Back-pedalling? Public Administration in Post-accession Central and Eastern Europe
Daniela Chodorowska: Compliance Leaders and Laggards within the EU-8
Christian Altfuldisch: Competition among Peers. Does Europe Still Inspire in the Balkans?
Ancuta Popa: The Impact of the Structural Funds in the Transformation Process of the New EU Member States
Romana Salageanu: The Challenge of Regionalisation for the Romanian Administration: Strengthening vs. Hindrance
Alvin Almendrala Camba: Europeanisation and Globalisation: A Stepwise Comparison of Telecommunications and Energy in Estonia and Poland, 1990-2011
Nikolaos Papakostas: Deconstructing the Notion of EU Conditionality as a Panacea in the Context of Enlargement
Nicole Gallina: Corruption in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: An EU-Conditionality Problem?
Cosmina Tanasoiu & Mihaela Racovita: Containing Europeanisation: Post-Accession (Anti-)Corruption Record in Romania and Bulgaria
Jan Husák, Ondrej Schütz & Michal Vít: National Identity of the Political Parties in the Visegrad Region
Anna Dimitrova: Public Opinion in Bulgaria with Regard to the EU Membership in the Context of the Economic Crisis: Towards a ‘Bulgarian Exception’?
Laszlo Flamm: The Crisis and Eurosceptism in Central and Eastern Europe
Katrin Böttger & Gabriel VanLoozen: Euroscepticism and the Return to Nationalism in the Wake of Accession as Part of the Europeanisation Process in Central and Eastern Europe
Dagmara Paciorek-Herrmann: ‘Doing Socialisation’ after Accession
Tamara Jovanovic: Present Experiences in the Europeanisation of National Minority groups: Revaluating the EU’s Role Beyond the Power of Membership Conditionality
Liudmila Mikalayeva, Guido Schwellnus & Lilla Balázs: The Revocation of Minority Protection Rules in New EU Member States: Language and Education Policy in Slovakia and Latvia
Neil Cruickshank: Perspectives on Europeanisation. Roma and Integration
Melanie H. Ram: Lost in Transition? Europeanization and the Roma