Change and Continuity in the European Union's Political Conditionality: Aims, Approach, and Priorities

Pridham, Geoffrey

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“…The above findings also affirm the claims made by Pridham (2007) and Steunenberg and Dimitrova (2007) regarding the limited power of conditionality to instil normative change. This is particularly evident in Slovakia which has proved unable to constrain non-state parties which have abused Roma.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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“…While political conditionality has grown in importance with every round of enlargements, the goalposts have also shifted (Hughes et al 2007), as have the levers for change, with the Commission becoming relatively less demanding than other European institutions (Pridham 2007). As Heather Grabbe notes in her discussion of the 2004 enlargement process, while the European Union primarily relied on soft power in its attempts to bring candidate countries to accept its norms and methods, the European Council also used its considerable bargaining power in a coercive manner at key points during the membership preparations (Grabbe 2006).…”

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Evaluating Transitions: Human Rights and Qualitative Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Blitz

2011

Europe-Asia Studies

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Evaluating Transitions: Human Rights and Qualitative Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

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2011

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…Therefore, a complex set of deep-rooted self-perceptions and self-descriptions occupies a privileged place amongst what the anthropologist Marko Ž ivković, paraphrasing Clifford Geertz, has termed 'stories Serbs tell themselves and others about themselves'. 5 European integration in the Western Balkans also presents its own controversies (recent contributions to this discussion include Kostovicova and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, 6 Pridham, 7 Turkes and Gokgoz 8 ); as Anastasakis writes: EU conditions vary from the broad Copenhagen criteria to more focused conditions of the Association Agreements, to specific conditions linked to financial packages and projects. Other conditions emanate from the Dayton, Belgrade, and Ohrid peace accords.…”

Section: Serbia's Accession To the European Unionmentioning

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The Story of Staro Sajmište Concentration Camp, Produced/Producing Europe

Syrri¹

2012

European Review

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This article aims at considering the story of the Belgrade Staro Sajmište Second World War concentration camp, as it unfolded since October 2007. At that point, it captured national and international headlines, as a range of actors rallied to ban the private use of this memory place for a concert by a British pop group. The article concentrates on patterns of construction of memory(ies), space and transfers of knowledge as well as power as the Staro Sajmište story is ‘uncovered’ to the public in mainstream mass media. The focus of inquiry extends beyond the official realm of memory to media representations as central aspects of contemporary manifestations of collective memory. The article intends to explore the construction of narratives, public discourse and identities that directly impact democratic practice and citizenship in the wake of the radical social and political change that Serbia has experienced in the recent past and during the Western Balkans European Union accession process. It demonstrates that the multiple (hi)stories and fractured mnemonic genealogies of Staro Sajmište produce, and are themselves produced by, the narrative of European participation and integration, in an interplay between different discursive layers, such as the national narrative, the international and European narrative and the local Jewish narrative, as well as practices of spatial reconstruction and consumerism. The article is informed by understandings of the Balkans as a space that is inside and outside Europe in many senses, traversed by flows of people, funding and ideas/imaginaries of Europe and European-ness, concretised in specific projects and the relations that constitute them.

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“…Conditionality in the case of the Western Balkans, including the Albanian case, has become much more rigorous and extensive as time has passed, and has increased in importance (Pridham, 2007).The Stabilisation and Association Process and the Western Balkan countries' perspective on EU membership, including the various political criteria reflected in the annual progress reports of the European Commission, started to broaden the focus of conditionality and establish the conditionality of candidate and potential candidate states of the Western Balkans as a separate subfield. As non-member states, the Western Balkan states do not usually have a voice in making the rules that they are required to adopt, hence the description 'top-down' process.…”

Section: Conditionalitymentioning

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Human Rights in the EU’s Conditionality Policy Towards Albania: The Practice of Sub-committee Meetings

Jusufi

2017

Intersections

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Intersections. EEJSP 3(2): 52-68. DOI: 10.17356/ieejsp.v3i2.304 http://intersections.tk.mta.hu Abstract EU enlargement policy is organized through a series of practices that regulate its relations with enlargement countries, including Albania, a candidate for EU membership. The aim of this contribution is modest in that it does not seek to engage in a discussion about the actual impact of EU conditionality. Instead, it takes the well-known limitations of external interference as given, and seeks to demonstrate the importance of an often-neglected institution in the process: subcommittees. These bodies bring together EU and Albanian officials and comprise a major part of the EU's engagement with enlargement countries. Imposing conditionality through sub-committee meetings, including in the field of human rights, is a practice that occupies most of the time of the European Union services working at the offices that maintain relations with Albania. However, this instrument has received scant attention in the literature.

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Change and Continuity in the European Union's Political Conditionality: Aims, Approach, and Priorities

Cited by 44 publications

References 8 publications

Evaluating Transitions: Human Rights and Qualitative Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Evaluating Transitions: Human Rights and Qualitative Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

The Story of Staro Sajmište Concentration Camp, Produced/Producing Europe

Human Rights in the EU’s Conditionality Policy Towards Albania: The Practice of Sub-committee Meetings

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