EU Public Policies Seen from a National Perspective: Slovenia And

0 7 Slovenia and Croatia in the European Union Perspective: from a National Seen Policies EU Public EU Public Policies Seen from a National Perspective: Slovenia and Croatia in the European Union Edited by EU Public Policies Damjan Lajh Seen from a NationalZdravko Petak Perspective: Slovenia and Croatia7 in the European Union Edited by Damjan Lajh and Zdravko Petak Ljubljana 2015 Book series Javne politike: Danica Fink Hafner (ed.) The Open Method of Coordination: A View from Slovenia Damjan Lajh, Urška Štremfel The Reception of the Open Method of Coordination in Slovenia Matej Knep, Danica Fink Hafner Eksperimentalna vladavina na področju zelene politike S. Kustec Lipicer, R. Slabe Erker, T. Bartolj Javnopolitični ukrepi in modeli športne politike T. Deželan, J. Pešut, Z. I. Siročić, D. F. Hafner, L. Sutlović, A. Krašovec, S. Vasiljević, S. Krupljan and A. Velić Levelling the playing field: monitoring Croatian policies to promote gender equality in politics Meta Novak Neformalno delo: opredelitev javnopolitičnega problema EU Public Policies Seen from a National Perspective: Slovenia and Croatia in the European Union Edited by Damjan Lajh and Zdravko Petak EU Public Policies Seen from a National Perspective: Slovenia and Croatia in the European Union Edited by Damjan Lajh and Zdravko Petak Ljubljana 2015 Book series: JAVNE POLITIKE Book series editor: Danica Fink Hafner Publisher: Faculty of Social Sciences Head of the publishing house: Hermina Krajnc Copyright © FDV 2015, Ljubljana. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Faculty of Social Sciences. 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Lajh, Damjan 280995840 To Kaja and Jan Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures ..........................................................xi List of Contributors .................................................................. xiii Abbreviations .............................................................................xvii Preface .......................................................................................xxiii PART ONE: ACTORS AND PROCESSES ...................................1 1 Problems and Prospects of New EU Member States in EU Policymaking Processes: View from Slovenia and Croatia Damjan Lajh and Zdravko Petak ..................................................3 2 The EU’s ‘Transformative’ Power Reassessed – the Case of the Croatian Accession Negotiations Elizabeta Mađarević ..................................................................29 3 Reform of the Public Administration in Slovenia and Croatia in the Context of Accession to the European Union Petra Goran ...............................................................................49 4 The Role of Organised Civil Society in EU Policymaking: Evidence from Slovenia and Croatia Meta Novak ...............................................................................67 PART TWO: PUBLIC POLICIES ...............................................83 5 Economic Policies and Development of the Slovenian Economy after EU Accession Anže Burger and Andreja Jaklič ..................................................85 6 Impact of EU Accession on the Croatian Economy Velimir Šonje ........................................................................... 101 7 Common Agricultural Policy: The Case of Slovenia Emil Erjavec, Maja Kožar, Marjeta Pintar and Tina Volk ........... 117 8 Common Agriculture Policy: The Case of Croatia Ramona Franić and Tihana Ljubaj ........................................... 141 9 Cohesion Policy in Slovenia: A Magic Wand or a Nightmare? Gregor Greif ............................................................................ 153 10 The Europeanisation of Regional Policy in Croatia: From Institutional Absorption to Transformation Aida Liha Matejiček ................................................................. 167 11 Proposal for a New Slovenian Integrated Maritime and Transport Policy Marko Pavliha ......................................................................... 181 12 Croatian Transport Policy in the EU Context Mladen Vedriš ......................................................................... 193 13 Slovenian Environmental Policies in the EU Context Tomaž Boh .............................................................................. 207 14 Croatian Environmental Policies in the EU Context Sanja Tišma and Marina Funduk ............................................. 225 15 Slovenian Employment Policy in the EU Context: Pre-emption of Austerity Matjaž Nahtigal ....................................................................... 241 16 Croatian Employment Policy in the EU Context Predrag Bejaković .................................................................... 255 17 Slovenian Education Policy in the EU Context Urška Štremfel ......................................................................... 267 18 Croatian Education Policy in the EU Context Tihomir Žiljak and Teodora Molnar ......................................... 279 INDEX ....................................................................................... 299 xi List of Tables and Figures Table 1.1: Overview of the Slovenian and Croatian accession processes ............................................................. 15 Table 3.1: Comparison of Croatia and Slovenia according to global indicators related to public governance ......... 60 Figure 5.1: Growth and fluctuation of economic activity before and after EU accession ....................................... 92 Figure 5.2: EBRD transition index, 1993–2012 ............................... 94 Table 6.1: Main macroeconomic indicators 2005–2014 .............. 104 Table 6.2: Measures of macroeconomic imbalances in Croatia in 2014 .......................................................... 109 Figure 7.1: Comparison of agricultural price developments between Slovenia and the EU (2010 = 100); 1996–2013. 126 Figure 7.2: Total budgetary support to agriculture and the structure of market and direct producer support measures; 1992–2013 ..................................................... 128 Figure 7.3: Changes in agricultural goods output by volume (2010 = 100); 1996–2013 .............................................. 129 Figure 7.4: Agri-food trade (EUR million); 1996–2013 ................ 131 Figure 7.5: Main income indicators of the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA); 1996–2013 ............................... 132 Table 7.1: Main structural indicators of Slovenian agriculture; 2000–2013. 133 Figure 7.6: Contribution of the food industry to gross value added and total employment (in %); 1996–2013 ........ 134 xii Table 8.1: Institutional development towards the CAP standards in 1991–2012 ................................................. 146 Table 8.2: Comparison of the CAP and Croatian agricultural policy reforms ................................................................ 148 Figure 9.1: Cohesion Policy division of powers between the Commission and Slovenia ............................................. 159 Table 9.1: GDP at current market prices by NUTS regions ....... 160 Figure 12.1: The Port of Rijeka’s position in the ‘belly of Europe’ ............................................................ 200 Table 16.1: The demographic structure of Croatia, 1991–2013. 257 Table 16.2: The active agricultural population, employees in legal entities of all propriety forms, in trades and freelance or self-employed occupations ................ 258 Table 17.1: The sovereign development and Europeanisation of Slovenia’s education system ...................................... 271 Table 18.1: Schematic overview of key segments of education policy change in Croatia .............................. 293 xiii List of Contributors Predrag Bejaković, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb. Tomaž Boh, Ph.D. in Political Science, employed at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. Anže Burger, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Emil Erjavec, Professor at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana. Ramona Franić, Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb. Marina Funduk, Researcher at the Institute for International Relations and Development, Zagreb. Petra Goran, Ph.D. in Political Science, Policy Officer at the European Commission, DG Education and Culture. Gregor Greif, MA in Political Science, Auditor at the Budget Supervision Office, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia. Andreja Jaklič, Professor

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