Europe Unites
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Europe Unites

The EU's Eastern Enlargement

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Europe Unites

The EU's Eastern Enlargement

About this book

The EU's eastern enlargement has coincided with a decade of rapid progress toward closer European integration. Poole argues that this enlargement, more than any previous one, is closely linked with major EU projects of integration, including justice and home affairs, monetary union, a common foreign and security policy, and the effort to create a constitutional treaty. By requiring the eastern states to adopt extensive reforms in their judicial and police systems, the enlargement process makes it easier for the EU to combat terrorism and organized crime and control the flow of immigration from outside Europe. The monetary union was deliberately put in place before enlargement (which might have made the task more difficult), but now the Stability and Growth Pact requires reform to make it flexible enough to serve a larger, more diverse Union. The addition of ten new states provides one of the main incentives for drafting a constitutional treaty. Finally, the candidate countries are helping to lay the groundwork for the next EU enlargement into southeastern Europe. As the first college text to explore the impact of the eastern enlargement on European integration, this book can be used effectively in comparative government, economics, European history, and international relations courses.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Preface
  4. Abbreviations
  5. 1 Enlargement and Integration
  6. 2 The Pattern of Previous Enlargements
  7. 3 The Eastern Enlargement: Politics and Process
  8. 4 Poland Joins the EU
  9. 5 Economic Leaders: Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia
  10. 6 Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
  11. 7 Romania and Bulgaria: Seeking to Stabilize Southeastern Europe
  12. 8 Reforming Agricultural and Regional Policy
  13. 9 Treaty of Nice: Essential Reforms
  14. 10 Enlargement and the Euro
  15. 11 Immigration and Enlargement
  16. 12 Justice and Home Affairs
  17. 13 Enlargement and the EU's Security and Defense Policy
  18. 14 Looking Beyond the EU's Eastern Enlargement
  19. Appendix: Speech by Joschka Fischer, "From Confederacy to Federation"
  20. Selected Bibliography
  21. Index