Comparative study on EU New Member States’ Level of Integration in EU Decision-Making
Comparative study on EU New Member States’ Level of Integration in EU Decision-Making

Author(s): Iveta Kažoka
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: CEDEM Centar za Demokratiju i Ljudska Prava
Keywords: EU; Integration; EU members
Summary/Abstract: For the purposes of this study, 12 EU member states are referred to as the new member states (NMS) – Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia,Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The division line that separates the NMS form the old member states (OMS) is taken to be the 2004/2007 Eastern Enlargement. Croatia is not accounted for as a NMS as during the research phase for this study there was too little comparable data relating to this member state that joined the EU on 1 July 2013. The study takes a look at all of the NMS, with a more in-depth focus on three countries that joined the EU in 2004 (Czech Republic, Latvia, Poland) and one country that joined the EU in 2007 (Bulgaria). For a comparative insight, the report also looks closely at two candidate states to join the EU in the future: Montenegro and Serbia.

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