EU Enlargement Versus Social Europe?

EU Enlargement Versus Social Europe?

Author: Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13:

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Recoge : Part I: Candidate countries and the community social acquis: an imposible match? - Part II: Social dumping: myth or reality?


European Enlargement Across Rounds and Beyond Borders

European Enlargement Across Rounds and Beyond Borders

Author: Haakon A. Ikonomou

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1315460009

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This volume suggests new, theoretically informed approaches for historians and social scientists to engage with the policy of enlargement – across rounds and in all its diversity. It follows three approaches: first tracing Longue Durée developments; second, investigating enlargement Beyond the Road to Membership; and third, exploring the Entangled Exchanges and synergies between the EC/EU and its outside. It attempts to properly historicise the process of enlargement with contributions from historians, social scientists and a legal scholar exemplifying suggested approaches and theoretical reflections from the various disciplines.


The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement

The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement

Author: Tatjana Sekulić

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 303042295X

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This book sheds light on the contradictions underlying the European Union enlargement process, specifically to the Western Balkans, challenging the common assumption that the integration of an extended European space might be possible without mutual transformation of the institutions and agencies involved. Sekulić maps the institutional dimension of the accession process, and analyses how the conditionality principle shapes and constrains the space for negotiation within the EU. Combining ethnographic research with the discourse analysis of the European Commission’s reports and documents from 2008 to 2019 concerning the Western Balkan countries, the book also explores the perceptions and agency of the individuals involved in this process. The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement will be of interest to students and scholars of European integration, the sociology of Europe and the EU, and Eastern European and Western Balkan studies.


Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe

Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe

Author: J. Hughes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-10-12

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230503187

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This book is a study of EU conditionality and compliance during the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries. EU conditionality for membership is widely understood as having been a driving force for Europeanization, providing incentives and sanctions for compliance or non-compliance with EU norms, such as the 'Copenhagen Criteria' and the adoption of the acquis communautaire . By taking regional policy and regionalization as a case study, this book provides a comparative analysis of the effects of conditionality on the Central and East European countries and explores the many paradoxes and weaknesses in the use of EU conditionality over time.


Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe

Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe

Author: Magdalena Bernaciak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-05

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1317660935

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The term ‘social dumping’ regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations. This book systematically examines social dumping in the context of the European integration process. It defines social dumping as the practice, undertaken by self-interested market participants, of undermining or evading existing social regulations with the aim of gaining a competitive advantage. It also shows how the two major EU integration projects  the creation of the Internal Market, and EU enlargement to the east and to the south  have provided market actors with new incentives and opportunities to contest existing social ‘constraints’. The empirical chapters examine social dumping practices accompanying labour migration, employee posting and cross-border investment distribution. In addition, they outline the process of formation of social standards and trace initiatives at EU and national levels that contribute to the spread of social dumping in Europe. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of employment relations, EU studies, international political economy, globalisation studies, welfare studies, social policy and migration studies.


EU Enlargement - Free Movement versus Social Europe?

EU Enlargement - Free Movement versus Social Europe?

Author: Moritz Dressel

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2009-03-16

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 3640289773

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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 8/A, University of Twente , course: Economic Governance, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The article focuses on EU enlargement and economic implications on labour markets in the former EU-15. Here, migration plays the central role for the theoretical and political discussion. Many fear migration waves. A run on Western European jobs was about to occur. Accordingly, almost all Member States have taken steps to shut off there labour markets for a certain period of time, thereby denying real membership for the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Are these resentments justified? Is Europe in a ‘race to the bottom’? Will migrants put the welfare state at stake, or may they even be the solution for inherent problems in Western European societies, such as ageing? Different approaches to making enlargement worthwhile will be discussed.


A Continent Moving West?

A Continent Moving West?

Author: Richard Black

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9089641564

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Dit boek beschrijft de toename van migratie uit Oost-europese landen in de periode van 2004-2007, na toetreding tot de EU. Het bevat nieuwe empirische 'casestudies' van migratiepatronen, zowel gebaseerd op veldwerk als op de analyse van bestaande statistieken.


Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement

Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement

Author: Warwick Armstrong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-04-24

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1134301324

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Offers an integral picture of the EU's internal and external borders to reveal the processes of re-bordering and social change currently taking place, exploring issues such as security, immigration, economic development and changing social and political attitudes.


The European Union's 2007 Enlargement

The European Union's 2007 Enlargement

Author: Cristina Chiva

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-10

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1317978765

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This book fills a significant gap in recent literature on European Union politics by examining the EU’s ‘other’ eastern enlargement, completed in 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria and Romania. It focuses on both the process and the effects of the 2007 enlargement within the wider context of the post-communist countries’ accession to the EU, and, more broadly, within the context of the history of EU enlargement. The book brings together in-depth analyses of a wide range of issues, both from a comparative perspective and through single case studies. Individual contributions shed new light onto EU enlargement through a theoretical re-evaluation of the ‘strategic action’ paradigm, as well as through historical analyses of the 2007 enlargement and of its implications for future EU enlargements. Further insight into the process of EU enlargement is gained through systematic exploration of the impact of accession on policy-making and institutional structures in Bulgaria and Romania. Altogether, the contributions exemplify the multi-faceted nature of EU enlargement and accession, as well as the extent to which the process of acceding to the EU is not completed with membership, either for the EU or for the candidate countries. This book was published as a special issue of Perspectives on European Politics and Society.


European Union Enlargement Conditionality

European Union Enlargement Conditionality

Author: Eli Gateva

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1137482435

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The book provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the development of EU enlargement conditionality across four different enlargement waves - the first (2004) and the second (2007) phase of the Eastern enlargement, the EU enlargement to Croatia (2013), and the ongoing enlargement round involving Turkey and the Western Balkans.