An environmental frontrunner in the Central and Eastern European regions since the late 1990s, Hungary followed a gradual but steady approximation progress to the EU environmental legislation. Previous research established an important role of the participation of economic and societal...

This paper captures the contradictions at the heart of the European Union's (EU) security approach in Eastern Europe and reveals their implications in practice. The EU's security approach towards the states at its Eastern borders has been characterized by pervasive ambiguity, oscillating between...