Between Rhetoric and Action: Reflections on Romania’s European Union Accession and Political Conditionality – The Views from Brussels and Bucharest
The role of political elites is an important theme in the study of EU enlargement; but how this relates to domestic politics is often neglected. This theme is applied to Romania, with a focus on the problems of implementing the EU’s political conditions. Firstly, attention is given to the conditiona...
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| description | The role of political elites is an important theme in the study of EU enlargement; but how this relates to domestic politics is often neglected. This theme is applied to Romania, with a focus on the problems of implementing the EU’s political conditions. Firstly, attention is given to the conditionality policy adopted by Brussels with respect to Romania; and then, secondly, attention turns to Bucharest. The analysis of Romanian responses is based on a distinction between political will and political capacity. While there are some positive elite characteristics relating to the will factor, although complicated by instrumental attitudes towards conditionality, various problems of political capacity help much to explain Romania’s persistent difficulties for much of the accession period in meeting Brussels’ demands. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-20078092ec3e4dcaa00a235542a08fca2025-08-20T03:31:28ZengEuropean Institute of RomaniaRomanian Journal of European Affairs1582-82711841-42732006-10-0163524Between Rhetoric and Action: Reflections on Romania’s European Union Accession and Political Conditionality – The Views from Brussels and BucharestGeoffrey Pridham0Professor of European Politics at the University of Bristol, UKThe role of political elites is an important theme in the study of EU enlargement; but how this relates to domestic politics is often neglected. This theme is applied to Romania, with a focus on the problems of implementing the EU’s political conditions. Firstly, attention is given to the conditionality policy adopted by Brussels with respect to Romania; and then, secondly, attention turns to Bucharest. The analysis of Romanian responses is based on a distinction between political will and political capacity. While there are some positive elite characteristics relating to the will factor, although complicated by instrumental attitudes towards conditionality, various problems of political capacity help much to explain Romania’s persistent difficulties for much of the accession period in meeting Brussels’ demands.https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_Vol6_No3_Between-Rhetoric_and_Action.pdfdemocratisationeu accessioneu enlargementpolitical elitesromania |
| spellingShingle | Geoffrey Pridham Between Rhetoric and Action: Reflections on Romania’s European Union Accession and Political Conditionality – The Views from Brussels and Bucharest Romanian Journal of European Affairs democratisation eu accession eu enlargement political elites romania |
| title | Between Rhetoric and Action: Reflections on Romania’s European Union Accession and Political Conditionality – The Views from Brussels and Bucharest |
| title_full | Between Rhetoric and Action: Reflections on Romania’s European Union Accession and Political Conditionality – The Views from Brussels and Bucharest |
| title_fullStr | Between Rhetoric and Action: Reflections on Romania’s European Union Accession and Political Conditionality – The Views from Brussels and Bucharest |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between Rhetoric and Action: Reflections on Romania’s European Union Accession and Political Conditionality – The Views from Brussels and Bucharest |
| title_short | Between Rhetoric and Action: Reflections on Romania’s European Union Accession and Political Conditionality – The Views from Brussels and Bucharest |
| title_sort | between rhetoric and action reflections on romania s european union accession and political conditionality the views from brussels and bucharest |
| topic | democratisation eu accession eu enlargement political elites romania |
| url | https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_Vol6_No3_Between-Rhetoric_and_Action.pdf |
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