lower environmental standards, and some worry that it will be too demanding for these new EU members to fully comply with … enlarged EU, we argue that this is a good reason for an upward harmonization of environmental policies at the EU level …

described as ‘a considerable obstacle in its EU accession efforts’. This article will focus on the current stumble blocks for … EU ETS. The build up of this paper will thus be as follows: first, the most important features of current European …” (March 2010). Then, the context and functioning of the EU ETS will be explored. Second, an overview of the Turkish …

The eastern enlargement of he EU has greatly increased the heterogeneity in the configuration of preferences of … decisions. However, the decision-making in the EU has shown a remarkable capacity of adaptation in the face of the entrance of … preference heterogeneity of the enlargement context, the EU legislative process is likely to generate legislation at medium …