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| ISBN: | 9780511676857
0511676859
9780511676086
0511676085
9780521113571
0521113571
1107202906
9781107202900
1282535943
9781282535947
9786612535949
6612535946
0511681348
9780511681349
0511683324
9780511683329
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The fight against corruption emerged as one of the most significant issues during the 2004 enlargement of the EU and gained even more importance with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007. In order to prepare candidate countries for membership, the EU found it necessary to create new institutions and mechanisms to address corruption. Patrycja Szarek-Mason traces the development of the EU anti-corruption framework, showing how recent enlargements transformed EU policy and highlighting inequities between the treatment of candidate countries and existing Member States. The experience gained during the 2004 enlargement led to a more robust anti-corruption stance during the accession of Bulgaria and Romania and will have implications for future enlargements of the EU. However, the framework can still be strengthened to address corruption adequately and promote higher standards among Member States, especially through greater use of 'soft law' in the form of mutually agreed, non-legally binding policy recommendations.
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| Other form: | Print version: Mason, Patrycja Szarek. European Union's fight against corruption. Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521113571
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