Relevance of Copenhagen Criteria in Actual Accession: Principles, Methods and Shortcomings of EU Pre-accession Evaluation

This paper will analyse the transparency, impartiality and objectiveness of the European Union’s (EU) pre-accession assessment procedure. The principal aim is to test and analyse whether the EU follows official and objective criteria in its progress reports or if is it dominated by institutional and...

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Main Author: Viljar Veebel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tallinn University 2011-11-01
Series:Studies of Transition States and Societies
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Online Access:http://www.tlu.ee/stss/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/stss_nov_2011_veebel.pdf