EU Induced Institutional Change in Post-Soviet Space

Nizhnikau, Ryhor

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“…97-9). Nizhnikau (2018) highlights the importance of analysing domestic institutions and actors in the Eastern Partnership countries, and in particular the allocation of power, to understand resistance to EU-induced reforms. Similarly, Králiková (2022) shows with regard to Ukraine's anti-corruption reform that despite the successful legal change, the implementation suffers from attempts at delaying and manipulating the reform process as a result of its implications for certain domestic actors' entrenched interests and power positions.…”

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Beyond Downloading: Venues for Associated Neighbouring Countries to Influence EU Law and Policies

Gstöhl¹,

Frommelt

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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The European Union (EU) has over time developed close relations, typically taking the form of acquis‐based association agreements, with the countries in its Western and Eastern neighbourhood. This article examines when, where and how these non‐Member States can influence the terms of their association with the EU's law and policies via institutional venues. It expands on the literature of external Europeanization and governance, which has mainly focused on the downloading of EU rules by these countries. Yet, the associated neighbours have the opportunity to exert influence at different stages of the law or policy‐making process: first, before the downloading of relevant new rules by uploading or cross‐loading, that is, by attempting to initiate or shape these rules during the agenda‐setting and the formulation phases; and second, during or after the downloading by tweaking or rebuffing relevant new rules in the adoption and implementation phases. These mechanisms of influence at different points in time and in different bodies are illustrated by examples from the countries of the European Free Trade Association, of the Eastern Partnership and in the EU's customs union. The findings indicate that more uploading opportunities can generally be expected, the more downloading is required, and the better the associated countries' access to EU bodies in the early stage of the formulation of new rules. Weak uploading opportunities make joint bodies more important for tweaking and rebuffing. The proposed conceptual framework contributes to the study of external differentiated integration and opens new research avenues.

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Beyond Downloading: Venues for Associated Neighbouring Countries to Influence EU Law and Policies

Gstöhl¹,

Frommelt

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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Where Do We Go from Here? EU Relations with the Eastern Partnership Avant Garde

Łazowski

2021

The Evolving Nature of EU External Relations Law

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This chapter looks at the relations between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership avant garde, that is Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova. In the course of the last ten years these three countries negotiated and signed very ambitious Association Agreements, which promise enhanced bilateral relations but without an explicit offer of EU membership on the horizon. At the same time, the signals coming from Kyiv, Tbilisi and (occasionally) Chis , inȃu indicate that the choice of a pro-EU trajectory is there to stay. With this in mind the analysis looks at the heart of the Association Agreements, that is, law approximation and, in broader terms, the way in which the association is developing. The author argues that the EU is reaching a point when, as in any close relationship, it will have to make its future intentions clear. Towards the end of the chapter a few suggestions as to the next steps forward are made. The easiest, and the most do-able option is to regularly update the lists of the EU acquis pencilled in for approximation. Furthermore, the relations could be upgraded by a reformed institutional framework, potentially modelled on the draft EU-Swiss Institutional Agreement and the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement. The parties may also wish to explore additional areas of co-operation, going beyond the current parameters of the Association Agreements. The EU also needs to be prepared that at some point in the future applications for membership may arrive.

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Catch 2020: explaining the performance of the EU policy towards Belarus

Nizhnikau

2022

Int Polit

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EU Induced Institutional Change in Post-Soviet Space

Cited by 7 publications

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Beyond Downloading: Venues for Associated Neighbouring Countries to Influence EU Law and Policies

Beyond Downloading: Venues for Associated Neighbouring Countries to Influence EU Law and Policies

Where Do We Go from Here? EU Relations with the Eastern Partnership Avant Garde

Catch 2020: explaining the performance of the EU policy towards Belarus

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