Europeanization at the EU’s External Borders: the Case of Romanian–Moldovan Civil Society Cooperation

Şoitu, Conţiu Tiberiu; Soitu, Daniela

doi:10.1080/07036337.2010.498633

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“…The relations between the European Union and Moldova have evolved in the highly complex international environment that emerged in the early 1990s and are in several ways archetypal of the geopolitical tensions and political identity politics that have played out in both East and West since the collapse of the Soviet Union. As Soitu and Soitu (2011) have indicated, EU-Moldova relations cannot be clearly separated from the Moldova-Romania context. However, overarching processes of diffusing European Union regulations, norms and values did promote a struggle for distinct geopolitical orientations among Moldovan political elites.…”

Section: The European Unionmentioning

confidence: 95%

The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood

Liikanen¹,

Scott²,

Sotkasiira³

2016

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The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through: changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration of political, economic and social ties, the resurgence of regional conflicts 'frozen' during the Soviet period, and new migration patterns both towards Russia and the European Union. At the same time the EU has emerged as an important player in the region, formulating its European Neighbourhood Policy, and engaging neighbouring states in a process of cross-border regional co-operation. This book explores a wide range of complex and contested questions related to borders, security and migration in the emerging 'European Neighbourhood' which includes countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the countries which immediately border the EU. Issues discussed include new forms of regional and cross-border co-operation, new patterns of migration, and the potential role of the EU as a stabilizing external force.

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Section: The European Unionmentioning

confidence: 95%

The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood

Liikanen¹,

Scott²,

Sotkasiira³

2016

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“…Environmental CSOs in particular proved very effective in changing the contours of domestic policy debate along cosmopolitan (over particularistic) and universalist lines favoured by the Commission. 28 Notwithstanding these positive developments in the role played by civil society in the Western Balkans, the evolution in Commission thinking about and management of the enlargement process places civil society within a very truncated operational space. Perhaps the most important lesson drawn from the eastern enlargement process by the bureaucracy was the need for consistent oversight of accession-driven reforms in candidate states.…”

Section: The Commission and Civil Society In The Western Balkansmentioning

confidence: 99%