. Borrowing from the literature on enlargement-led Europeanisation and EU conditionality, this article discusses how the EU has …’s and Romania’s trajectory towards EU membership is the evolutionary and contested nature of EU conditionality as well as … the 2004-7 EU enlargement, offer us critical tests of the enlargement-led Europeanisation thesis. Thus, their study …

How effective and relevant is European Union political conditionality for the promotion of democracy in third countries … the EU for the years 1988—2004. The analysis shows robust and strong effects of EU political conditionality on democracy … analysis controls for economic development and transnational exchanges as two alternative potential causes of democratization …

democracy in Turkey. However, Turkish democracy is still fragile and far from being consolidated. In this context, the paper … argues that a successful process of consolidation of democracy is conditioned by three factors: (1) a moderation of the …

in Europe. With the economic borders between Member States removed, Europeanisation becomes inevitable for companies. The …