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Cover -- Beyond the Panama Papers. The Performance of EU Good Governance Promotion -- Contents -- For a More Effective Link Between EU Funds and Good Governance -- Changing the norm of corruption -- EU aid and good governance promotion -- Types of EU aid -- Distribution of Aid by Country and Region -- The link between governance change and EU aid -- The Direct Evidence and its Puzzles -- Modernisation -- Institutional transfer -- Conclusions and policy options. What canand should the EU do? -- The recommendations that we make to EU therefore are as follows -- Appendix A -- 1. EU Democracy Promotion, Conditionality and Judicial Autonomy -- Introduction -- EU conditionality, direct investment and judicial autonomy -- Data and analysis -- Control variables -- Estimation -- Results -- Leverage -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Spain: Roads to Good Governance? How EU Structural Funds Impact Governance across Regions -- Introduction -- Spain -- Theory and literature -- Analysis of resources and constraints -- Resources for corruption -- The role of restrictions -- References -- 3. Slovakia: The Impact of EU Good Governance Aid 2007-2013 -- Slovakia's governance regime -- The role of EU -- Results and discussion -- References -- 4. Romania: Europeanisation of Good Governance. Where and why does it fail, and what can bedone about it? -- What is good governance? -- Where does the Europeanisation of good governance fail? -- Substantive legality: Considerable improvement -- Formal legality: Pathological development -- Capacity: Considerable progress -- Impartiality: Only judicial independence, the rest of the state lags behind -- Coherence: Towards increased fragmentation -- Efficiency-effectiveness: Selective progress within broad stagnation -- What prevents Europeanisation of governance? -- The problem of valuing quantity over quality.

This last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five yearsEU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime.How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve governancein the countries that it assists? Using the new index of public integrity and avariety of other tools created in the project this issue looks at how EU funds andnorms affected old member states (like Spain), new member states (Slovakia,Romania), accession countries (Turkey) and the countries recipient of developmentfunds (Egypt, Tanzania, Tunisia). The data covers over a decade of structuraland development funds, and the findings show the challenges to changing governanceacross borders, the different paths that each country has experiencedand suggest avenues of reforming development aid for improving governance.

This last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five years EU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime. How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve governance in the countries that it assists? Using the new index of public integrity and a variety of other tools created in the project this issue looks at how EU funds and norms affected old member states (like Spain), new member states (Slovakia, Romania), accession countries (Turkey) and the countries recipient of development funds (Egypt, Tanzania, Tunisia). The data covers over a decade of structural and development funds, and the findings show the challenges to changing governance across borders, the different paths that each country has experienced and suggest avenues of reforming development aid for improving governance.