O carte despre cum a reusit Romania sa pacaleasca Uniunea Europeana. ---------------------------- Vali "Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions are the chief mark of greatness." "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Aboneaza-te la <mailto:[email protected]> ngo_list: o alternativa moderata (un pic) la [ngolist] Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? http://us.macmillan.com/romaniaandtheeuropeanunion Romania and the European Union How the Weak Vanquished the Strong <http://us.macmillan.com/author/tomgallagher> Tom Gallagher Manchester University Press, October 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7190-7743-2, ISBN10: 0-7190-7743-5, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 304 pages According to Tom Gallagher, Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceausescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. He argues convincingly that Brussels was tricked into offering full membership to this Balkan country in return for substantial reforms which its rulers now refuse to carry out. This book unmasks the failure of the EU to match its visionary promises of transforming Romania with the shabby reality. Benefiting from access to internal reports and leading figures involved in a decade of negotiations, it shows how Eurocrats were outwitted by unscrupulous local politicians who turned the EU's multi-level decision-making processes into a laughing-stock. The EU's famous 'soft power' turned out to be a mirage, as it was unable to summon up the willpower to insist that this key Balkan state embraced its standards of behavior in the political and economic realms.
The book unravels policy failures in the areas of justice, administrative and agricultural reform and shows how Romania moved backwards politically during the years of negotiations. It is an invaluable book for academics and students who need to know about the practice, as well as the theory, of eastern enlargement, and will be an effective tool for policy-makers, businessmen and others involved with Romania. _____ Praise "A chilling account of how Romania's wily ex-communist elite outwitted naive and impatient EU leaders." -- Edward Lucas, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist _____ Biography <http://us.macmillan.com/author/tomgallagher> Tom Gallagher Tom Gallagher has taught at the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University for many years and six of his nine single-authored books have explored the politics and international relations of the Balkans. _____ Table of contents Acknowledgments * List of acronyms * Introduction * The EU discovers Romania * Crafty natives lead the Eurocrats astray * The futility of EU funding * Labour of Sisyphus: administrative reform in Romania * Justice clings to its chains: 1989-2004 * NATO, the EU and Romania's strategy of duplicity * The EU at its most incoherent: April-December 2004 * The EU regains and loses the initiative: 2005-7 * Corruption and anti--corruption * The expiry of reform after 2007 * Conclusion * Index C 2008 Macmillan
