EU accession is no "end of history"

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 8-16

  Mungiu Pippidi, Alina ^a,b  

^a ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^b HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE   (Germany)

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1. More specifically, column three shows the difference in scores between the year that a country started negotiations and the year that it concluded them and signed the accession treaty. The intervals measured are unequal, as the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia were first invited to start negotiations at the Luxembourg 1997 EU Council and commenced negotiations in 1998. The rest of the countries (including Romania and Bulgaria), which were considerably less developed on all counts, only received the invitation to begin negotiations in 1999 at the Helsinki summit. Ten countries (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, along with Cyprus and Malta) became EU members in 2004, and Romania and Bulgaria signed their accession treaties in 2005 (and joined the EU in 2007).
2. For a fuller discussion of this matter, see Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, "European Enlargement and Democratic Performance," in Michael Emerson, ed., Democratisation in the European Neighbourhood (Brussels: CEPS, 2005), 15-38.
3. See Graham Avery, "The Enlargement Negotiations," in Fraser Cameron, ed., The Future of Europe: Integration and Enlargement (London: Routledge, 2004), 52.