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Europeanization involves the transposition and implementation of European legislation in EU member states. Whereas EU policy implementation is explicitly recognized as the responsibility of the member states, the new emphasis on benchmarking recognizes that different implementation strategies can be beneficial, provided the outcome is appropriate. New data representing the full EU transport acquis from 1957 to 2004 and the national transposition instruments derived from data bases for Germany, Greece, the UK, Spain and the Netherlands show that only 39 per cent of the acquis was transposed in time. Why do member states not transpose EU directives on time? Logistic and multinomial logistic analysis explains this in terms of the level of complexity of EU directives; the use of national legal instruments that include considerable de facto veto players; and the shorter the transposition time set in the directive, the more delayed the transposition process.

This study addresses a central aspect of the micromanagement of the European Parliament, the determinants of rapporteurship allocation. Focusing on the period from 1995 to 1999, I match rapporteurship assignments in the committee on environment with occupational, group membership, ideological and national data. The study asks which of the two distinct features of committees, distributional concern or informational provision, determines rapporteurship selection. My analysis shows that the group of rapporteurs does not mirror the composition of the full plenary. Moreover, the results are consistent with the view that a multifaceted combination of the two concepts of 'demanding' and 'informative' committees promises a richer explanation of rapporteur assignment than any one of those theories alone.

1. Introduction -- Part I: Economics -- 2. Has Twenty Years of Slovenia's EU Membership Boosted Competitiveness and Foreign Direct Investments? -- 3. Financial Aspects of Slovenia's Membership in the EU -- 4. Practice Makes Progress, Not Perfect: Twenty Years of Slovenian Participation in the EU Internal Market -- 5. Significant Improvement but Also Missed Opportunities: Slovenian Innovation Policy from 2004 to 2024 -- 6. A Proactive Approach to Co-creating the European Research Area: The Case of Slovenia in the Last Twenty Years -- Part II: CFSP -- 7. Twenty Years in the EU (CFSP): From "Now What?" to Finding a Distinct Voice for Slovenia's Foreign Policy -- 8. All good-neighbourly? Bilateral relations with Croatia during 20 years of Slovenian EU membership -- 9. Slovenia and Common Security and Defence Policy: Is There a True North for Slovenia in the Strategic Compass? -- 10. A Good Pupil in an Unpredictable Classroom: The Impact of EU Membership on Human Rights Protection in Slovenia from 2004 to 2023 -- Part III: Europeanisation -- 11. Slovenian Public Opinion on Europe -- 12. European Elections in Slovenia: Who Ran and Who Was Elected in 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019? -- 13. Gradual, Pragmatic and Flexible: The Europeanization of Institutions and the Coordination of EU Affairs -- 14. Slovenia(ns) in the European Union: Reflecting on Missed Opportunities and Lessons Learned Two Decades Later.

European democracy is undergoing profound change. The various crises of the past 15 years and the transformations associated with modernisation, globalisation, geopolitics and Europeanisation are threatening the trust of citizens in political actors and institutions and the legitimacy of the EU multi-level system. This goes hand in hand with the polarisation of European societies. In order to counter these developments, the problems of trust and legitimacy must be better researched. This is where the ActEU research project "Towards a new era of representative democracy. Activating European Citizens' Trust in Times of Crises and Polarisation" comes in. This article provides an overview of the underlying conceptual considerations of the Horizon Europe project.