The book explores the role of new modes of governance in helping future member states to cope with their accession to the EU. It examines the extent to which civil society and business have assisted the governments of Southern, Central and Eastern European accession countries in taking on the ever more comprehensive body of EU laws and regulations.

Autorentext
TANJA A. BÖRZEL is Professor of Political Science and holds the Chair of European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Together with Thomas Risse, she directs the Research College The Transformative Power of Europe . She has taught at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Heidelberg.

Inhalt
Introduction; T.A.Börzel New Modes of Governance and Accession: The Paradox of Double Weakness; T.A.Börzel Environmental Policy: The Challenge of Accession; T.A.Börzel Greece: Overcoming Statism in Environmental Governance?; C.Koutalakis Portugal: The Challenges of Environmental Governance and the Realities of Government; A.M.Fernández & N.Font Spain: When Government Welcomes Environmental Governance; A.M.Fernández & N.Font Hungary: The Tricky Path of Building Environmental Governance; A.Buzogány Poland: When Environmental Governance Meets Politics; S.Guttenbrunner Romania: Environmental Governance Form without Substance; A.Buzogány After Accession: Escaping the Low Capacity Trap?; T.A.Börzel