The Tough Trials Ahead for the EU's Eastern Expansion

In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 103, Heft 671, S. 119-126

Abstract

As considerable as the challenges of enlargement for the EU are, they pale in comparison to the challenges of accession facing the new members. … Taken together, they will make it exceptionally difficult for most if not all of the governments of the new member states to govern effectively and maintain public support.