Slovakia´s Relations with the European Union 1998-2002: Political Conditionality, its Effects and its Limitations
Slovakia´s Relations with the European Union 1998-2002: Political Conditionality, its Effects and its Limitations

Summary/Abstract: This contribution seeks first to look briefly at the EU.s formulation of democratic conditionality and Slovakia.s pre-1998 relations with the EU before concentrating on the Dzurinda Government during 1998 . 2002. How far is such change over the EU.s political conditions simply a question of political will on the part of applicant governments driving democratic conditionality and, if so, is EU policy here essentially a dependent variable? Or, alternatively, should one view the implementation of this conditionality as part of a complex dynamics with domestic constraints as well as European pressures interacting?

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