Institutionalisation of Integration Policy
Institutionalisation of Integration Policy

Summary/Abstract: In my article I would like to focus on the institutionalisation of integration policy and discuss Slovakia’s limits and possibilities in the enlarged European Union. By institutionalisation I mean the various documents, structures and also persons and personalities, that formulated integra-tion policy in Slovakia over the past years and that today are adapting to new conditions related to membership in the EU. In the following paragraphs I shall outline the problem of institutional-isation on three levels. First, up until now integration policy has principally been concerned with the one way transfer of EU rules. Second, the demands of integration policy have affected the different domestic political actors in different ways. And last but not least, the inclusion of inte-gration into the EU amongst top foreign policy priorities naturally begs the question about the contents and the nature of Slovakia’s future foreign policy.

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