The European Union's fight against corruption : the evolving policy towards Member States and candidate countries / / Patrycja Szarek-Mason [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459312703321
• Autore: Mason Patrycja Szarek
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-107-20290-6; 1-282-53594-3; 9786612535949; 0-511-67685-9; 0-511-68134-8; 0-511-68332-4; 0-511-67608-5; 0-511-67936-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in European law and policy
• Disciplina: 345.24/02323
• Soggetti: Political corruption - European Union countries; Fraud - European Union countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Corruption : concept, importance and international response -- The scope of EU legal powers and development of the policy in the area of anti-corruption -- The EU strategy against corruption within the Member States -- Conditionality in the EU accession process -- The EU's evaluation of corruption in the Central and Eastern European candidate countries -- The EU anti-corruption strategy towards the Central and Eastern European candidate countries : achievement or missed opportunity? -- The impact of 2004 enlargement on the EU anti-corruption policy -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: The fight against corruption emerged as one of the most significant issues during the 2004 enlargement of the EU and gained even more importance with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007. In order to prepare candidate countries for membership, the EU found it ; necessary to create new institutions and mechanisms to address corruption. Patrycja Szarek-Mason traces the development of the EU anti-corruption framework, showing how recent enlargements transformed EU policy and highlighting inequities between the treatment of candidate countries and existing Member States. The experience gained during the 2004 enlargement led to a more robust anti-corruption stance during the accession of Bulgaria and Romania and will have implications for future enlargements of the EU. However, the framework can still be strengthened to address corruption adequately and promote higher standards among Member States, especially through greater use of 'soft law' in the form of mutually agreed, non-legally binding policy recommendations.