Aspects of Europe´s Normative Power in the Context of Romania´s Transitional Justice
Aspects of Europe´s Normative Power in the Context of Romania´s Transitional Justice

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to provide an insight into the European Union constructing its role as a normative power in relation to Central and Eastern European countries. Spe-cial attention is drawn to a specific scenario, namely Romania´s attempts to initia-te the transitional justice process. Thereby, it is shown that transitional justice has become increasingly relevant within the EU, and that it has recently evolved into an independent European field of action within the democratization policy. This leads to the question of previous manifestations and impacts of Europe´s normative power role in relation to Central and Eastern European countries, more specifically to Romania´s transitional justice measures. Although a more indirect approach has been followed, the diffusion of Europe´s norms within communicative platforms and even normative pressure were identified in relation to truth seeking attempts and reconciliation with the communist past.

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