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  • A cause of conflict? : the implications of decision-making changes for the EU's eastwards enlargement
    Field, Heather
    Changing in voting weights and arrangements in the Council of the European Union (EU) were made by the Nice summit, overcoming one of the hurdles facing the EU's prospective eastwards enlargement. ... The article examines those changes and why the issue of voting weights and arrangements has been a contentious one in the context of the prospective eastwards enlargement of the EU, as well as some other major considerations facing enlargement. It comments on the applicability and interconnectedness of two independent explanatory theories of integration in the context of the prospective eastwards enlargement. The first is "rational choice" based theory with its emphasis on national and material interests, and the second emphasis is on the importance of ideas and norms and the social construction of reality. It is argued that the contentious nature of decision-making arrangements and related changes is demonstrated by the failure of the member-states to agree on the incorporation of changes necessary to allow eastwards enlargement to be achieved in time for their inclusion in the Amsterdam Treaty. It relate s ideas, norms and more material interests to the major issues facing the prospective eastwards enlargement of the EU. These include the movement of labour and of the Romany population, the unrestricted sale of land, agricultural support, and gender and class equality.
    Source: Journal of international relations and development. - ISSN 1408-6980 (Vol. 4, no. 1, Mar. 2001, str. 55-72, 86, 88)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2001
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 20631645

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