The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The starting point is the assumption that accession can only be successfully completed if the interests of decisive actors in present EU countries are respected. Decisive actors in the West are the members of the European Parliament, individuals in national governments and in the Commission. Personal costs and benefits of these individuals are analysed with respect to enlargement. Furthermore, the basic strategic issues of the negotiations are depicted that arise from the different pre-entry and post-entry position of new members. The Intergovernmental Conference is reinterpreted as an opportunity of EU-15 actors to protect their...
The Intergovernmental Conference which should conclude at Nice in December 2000 deals with issues of...
[Abstract by Archive of European Integration editor]. Focusing on "asymmetric interdependence" - tho...
The article discusses the development of political conditonality in the process of the EU enlargemen...
The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Tre...
The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Tre...
Abstract: The paper applies standard political-economic reasoning and game-theoretical concepts to E...
Der Verfasser untersucht die Verhandlungen ueber die EU-Erweiterung und den Vertrag von Nizza aus Si...
Enlargement is affecting personal interests of politicians and lobbyists in many ways. This view is ...
'This paper examines the impact that the process of enlargement may have on European Union instituti...
The EU enlargement process and its consequences are decisively influenced by material national inter...
The paper considers the state of the ENP policy in the framework of the present institutional impass...
The Intergovernmental Conference which should conclude at Nice in December 2000 deals with issues of...
The paper considers the state of the ENP policy in the framework of the present institutional impass...
The past fifty years of European integration can be seen as the result of a two-level political game...
The fifth enlargement of the European Union, apart from the most demanding in terms of preparation f...
The Intergovernmental Conference which should conclude at Nice in December 2000 deals with issues of...
[Abstract by Archive of European Integration editor]. Focusing on "asymmetric interdependence" - tho...
The article discusses the development of political conditonality in the process of the EU enlargemen...
The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Tre...
The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Tre...
Abstract: The paper applies standard political-economic reasoning and game-theoretical concepts to E...
Der Verfasser untersucht die Verhandlungen ueber die EU-Erweiterung und den Vertrag von Nizza aus Si...
Enlargement is affecting personal interests of politicians and lobbyists in many ways. This view is ...
'This paper examines the impact that the process of enlargement may have on European Union instituti...
The EU enlargement process and its consequences are decisively influenced by material national inter...
The paper considers the state of the ENP policy in the framework of the present institutional impass...
The Intergovernmental Conference which should conclude at Nice in December 2000 deals with issues of...
The paper considers the state of the ENP policy in the framework of the present institutional impass...
The past fifty years of European integration can be seen as the result of a two-level political game...
The fifth enlargement of the European Union, apart from the most demanding in terms of preparation f...
The Intergovernmental Conference which should conclude at Nice in December 2000 deals with issues of...
[Abstract by Archive of European Integration editor]. Focusing on "asymmetric interdependence" - tho...
The article discusses the development of political conditonality in the process of the EU enlargemen...