EU-focused knowledge and its potential for mobilization
Titel: | EU-focused knowledge and its potential for mobilization |
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Veröffentlicht: | Berlin, 2008 |
Umfang: | Online-Ressource, 13 S. |
Format: | E-Book |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Working Paper Series of the Research Network 1989 ; Bd. 2 |
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Abstract: After the accession to the European Union in 2004 and 2007, political actors of new member states are equally represented in all EU institutions. In addition to the political level, a huge body of medium to high-level administrative staff and lobbyists has moved to this specific European labour market. After a phase of asymmetrical power constellations during the accession process, how can, after 2004, the real participation in the policy-making process in the enlarged EU of 25 Member States (EU-25) be characterized? How do participants of Central and East European Member States (EU-8) act in the new surrounding, given that all EU-institutions themselves are much more heterogeneous and in a process of consolidation and adjustment? Given that newcomers could not yet fully exploit the possibilities of negotiations in the policy-making process and their style of lobbying, negotiating and bargaining still is in need of a necessary fine-tuning, the aim of this paper is to highlight cons |