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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465615803321

Autore

Gallagher Tom <1954->

Titolo

Romania and the European Union [[electronic resource] ] : how the weak vanquished the strong / / Tom Gallagher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009

ISBN

1-78170-226-8

1-84779-297-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

327.498009/05

Soggetti

Political corruption - Romania

Electronic books.

Romania Foreign relations 1989-

Romania Foreign relations European Union countries

European Union countries Foreign relations Romania

Romania Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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: 2005-07 -- Corruption and anti-corruption -- The expiry of reform after 2007.

Sommario/riassunto

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 o