Policy Change in the EU's Immediate Neighbourhood

This edited volume analyzes the EU's influence on policy changes in neighborhood countries in Southeast Europe, Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Southern Caucasus, and the southern Mediterranean. The book develops short-, medium-, and long-term policy recommendations on how the EU can improve its support of reforms concerning societal, economic, and political issues. In doing this, it tackles policies, such as democracy promotion, environmental policy, visa facilitation, regulatory...
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This edited volume analyzes the EU's influence on policy changes in neighborhood countries in Southeast Europe, Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Southern Caucasus, and the southern Mediterranean. The book develops short-, medium-, and long-term policy recommendations on how the EU can improve its support of reforms concerning societal, economic, and political issues. In doing this, it tackles policies, such as democracy promotion, environmental policy, visa facilitation, regulatory convergence with the internal market, political decentralization for conflict resolution, and the role of civil society in these reform processes. Overall, the book encourages the EU to design its policies to be more target group oriented and to extend the circle of actors addressed to include non-state actors. (Series: Europaische Schriften - Vol. 93)