84 research outputs found
Book review: Xu Zhiyuan: Paper Tiger - Inside the Real China. London: Head of Zeus 2017. ISBN 978-1-78185-978-0
Michal Makocki, Nicu Popescu: China and Russia - An Eastern Partnership in the Making? Paris: EU Institute for Strategic Studies 2016. ISBN 978-92-9198-609-5
Book review: Eva Pejsova (ed.): Guns, Engines and Turbines - The EU's Hard Power in Asia. Paris: EU Institute for Security Studies, 2018. ISBN 978-92-9198-76-8
Eastern enlargement of the European Union
The accession of the East European countries to the European Union presents a challenge to both the candidate countries and the EU itself. Ten former communist countries are waiting to achieve membership in the prestigious Union. This contribution summarises and analyses three criteria set by the Council of Europe in Copenhagen (system of parliamentary democracy, success fuloperation on the Union`s free common market, adherence to and implementation of the Union`s legislation) which must be met by each of the candidates in order to attain membership
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