Enlarging the European Union: Effects on the New Member States and the EU

TRANS EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES ASSOCIATION Enlarging the European Union: Effects on the new member states and the EU EDITED BY GRAHAM AVERY, ANNE FABER AND Anne SCHMIDT TRANS EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES ASSOCIATION Enlarging the European Union: Effects on the new member states and the EU EDITED BY GRAHAM AVERY, ANNE FABER AND Anne SCHMIDT TRANS EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES ASSOCIATION, BRUSSELS First published 2009 By the Trans European Policy Studies Association 11, Rue d’Egmont, 1000 Brussels © Graham Avery, Anne Faber and Anne Schmidt for selection and editorial matter; individual chapters the contributors Typeset by Tariatex Printed and bound in Belgium by Tariatex (www.tariatex.be) All rights reserved. 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ISBN: 978-2-9600828-1-4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview on authors .............................................................................. 7 I Preface ................................................................................................ 13 By Jan TRUSZCZYŃSKI .................................................................... 13 By Georgios GHIATIS ......................................................................... 14 II Introduction ....................................................................................... 15 By Anne SCHMIDT ............................................................................. 15 The effects of enlargement on the European polity: State of the art and theoretical and methodological challenges By Anne FABER .................................................................................. 20 III The vertical dimension: Effects of accession on the new member states ................................................................. 29 Effects of accession on Poland By Maria KARASINSKA-FENDLER .................................................... 29 The Effects of EU accession in Hungary By Tamás SZEMLÉR .......................................................................... 36 Effects of EU enlargement: Slovenia By Sabina KAJNČ .............................................................................. 41 The Czech discourse on the EU’s external activities By Vít BENEŠ ..................................................................................... 47 Cyprus and EU Enlargement By Costas MELAKOPIDES/Kostas SASMATZOGLOU ..................... 51 The effects of EU enlargement on Malta By Roderick PACE .............................................................................. 59 The Effect of EU accession on Bulgaria By Krassimir Y. NIKOLOV/Kaloyan D. SIMEONOV ............................ 74 Assessment of the effects following Romania’s accession to the EU By Daniela FILIPESCU ....................................................................... 86 IV Synthesising effects of accession on the new member states – a comparative approach ................................................................... 93 Effects of Accession on the New Member Countries: The Economic Dimension By András INOTAI ............................................................................... 93 Accession Effects on cohesion in the new member states By Maurice GUYADER ...................................................................... 101 Effects of EU Enlargement on foreign policy attitudes By Henriette RIEGLER ...................................................................... 104 V The horizontal dimension: Effects of EU Enlargement on the EU ............................................... 109 Effects of enlargement on the EU’s policies By Margus RAHUOJA ...................................................................... 109 Effects of enlargement on the EU’s institutions & decision-making - The EU Institutions after Enlargement: Not quite Business as Usual By Edward BEST, Thomas CHRISTIANSEN and Pierpaolo SETTEMBRI ..................................................................... 112 VI Conclusion ...................................................................................... 125 By Graham AVERY ............................................................................ 125 OVERVIEW ON AUTHORS // OVERVIEW ON AUTHORS Graham AVERY is Honorary Director-General of the European Commission and Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. He has been Secretary General of TEPSA and Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence, Practitioner Fellow of the Sussex European Institute, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Natolin, Warsaw. His interests include enlargement policy and the future borders of the European Union. Vít BENEŠ is Researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. He graduated in International Relations and Diplomacy at the Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague. He is currently a PhD. candidate, studying at the Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague. His research is focused on EU enlargement, EU–Turkish relations, the prospects of its future membership and the European dimension of Czech foreign policy. Prof. Dr. Edward BEST is Head of Unit at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht. He has a doctorate from the University of Oxford, and has worked in the regional security programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He specialises in European institutions and the political aspects of European integration, as well as comparative regionalism and the management of regional organisa- tions. He has been a consultant for the European Commission, the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Helsinki Commission. He has co-edited three books on the EU - Rethinking the European Union: IGC 2000 and Beyond (EIPA, 2000), From Luxembourg to Lisbon and Beyond: Making the Employment Strategy Work (EIPA, 2002) and The Institutions of the Enlarged European Union (Edward Elgar, 2008) – and published numerous articles on the European Union and institutional arrangements for regional integration. Prof. Dr. Thomas CHRISTIANSEN is Professor of European Institutional Politics at Maas- tricht University and also holds positions as Associate Professor at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht and as Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges having previously worked as research fellow at the University of Essex and as Director of the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration, co-editor of the ‘Europe in Change’ series at Manchester University Press and member of the steering ORS committee of the Standing Group of the European Union of the European Consortium of TH AU Political Research. He has published widely on different aspects of the politics of the EU. ON Dr. Anne FABER is Researcher and Co-ordinator of the Graduate School on “Multilevel EW I Constitutionalism: European Experiences and Global Perspectives” at the Humboldt-Uni- V R versität Berlin. She studied European Studies at the Universities of Osnabrück/Germany VE and Queen’s University of Belfast, N.I., and completed her PhD on “European integration O and theory-building in political science” at the University of Osnabrück in March 2004. 7 Anne Faber has been a lecturer in the intensive study programme “European Studies” at the University of Osnabrück (2001-2005) and has taught at the Universities of Bielefeld and Cologne. From 2005 until 2007 she was a researcher at the Jean Monnet Chair of Prof. Dr. W. Wessels and co-responsible for EU-CONSENT, a large European Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission under the 6th framework programme. Her main ar- eas of research, on which she has published widely, are: Theories of European integration; Trends in the development of the EU’s constitutional order and institutional structure; The (institutional) effects of EU enlargements and European Neighbourhood Policy. Daniela FILIPESCU is currently the Permanent Representative of the Romanian Cham- ber of Deputies at the European Parliament and the representative in Brussels of Eurisc Foundation – European Institute for Risk Security and Communication Management. Previously she was a paid trainee at the European Parliament, worked in the Romanian parliamentary administration, having an extensive experience in matters related to Ro- mania’s negotiations in view of EU accession and later she was a press correspondent accredited at the EU Institutions. She holds an M.A. in International Politics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a D.E.A. in Political Sciences – specialization in European Studies – from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences and an MA in Business Law and Inter- national Co-operation organised in co-operation by the University of Paris I Panthéon- Sorbonne and University of Bucharest. She graduated in Business Administration at the Academy of Economic Studies and the Diplomatic Institute in Bucharest. Maurice GUYADER, economist, is principal administrator at the Directorate General for Enlargement of the European Commission and also

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