Stabilisation and association agreements: Europe agreements for the western balkans?

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-103

  Phinnemore, David ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85050371029     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eerr2003005     Document Type: Review

References (27)

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2. Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States and the Republic of Croatia, COM(2001) 371 final, Brussels, 9 July 2001 (hereinafter referred to as SAA-Croatia). Negotiations began on 24 November 2000 and lasted just under six months, the SAA being initialled on 14 May 2001.
3. European Commission, The Stabilisation and Association Process for South East Europe: First Annual Report, COM(2002) 163 final, 4 April 2002, p. 16; Uniting Europe, 20 May 2002, pp. 9-10
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15. See, for example, the criticisms which surrounded the use of safeguard measures against steel imports from the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, in L. van den Hende, 'EU Safeguard Measures under the Europe Agreements: The Non-Settlement of Trade Disputes' in M. Maresceau, (ed.), Enlarging the European Union: Relations between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe (London, Longman, 1997), pp. 140-159
16. R. Biermann, 'Stabilitätspakt und EU-Balkanpolitik: Von der Stabilisierung zur Integration?' (2002) 25 Integration, pp. 221-2.
17. On CARDS, see European Commission, CARDS Assistance Programme to the western Balkans: Regional Strategy Paper 2002-2006, Brussels, 22 October 2001; European Report, 19 January 2002, V.2.
18. See Friis and Murphy, supra note 8, pp. 779-80;
19. R. Biermann, 'The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe - potential, problems and perspectives' (1999) C56 ZEI Discussion Papers, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, Bonn, pp. 14-5;
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21. European Council, Presidency Conclusions - Cologne European Council Meeting, 3 and 4 June 1999, Press Release Nr: 150/99, Cologne, 4 June 1999, point 72.
22. Irish Times, 7 April 2001, 14. See also the view that the SAAs are akin to 'virtual membership' in L. Friis and A. Murphy, 'Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act' in M. Green Cowles and M. Smith (eds), The State of the European Union: Risks, Reform, Resistance and Revival (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 186-204 at p. 203.
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