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The Limits of the EU's Political Conditionality Approach in the Western Balkans
Křiklánová, Michaela ; Karlas, Jan (advisor) ; Kučerová, Irah (referee)
The thesis aims to unravel the relationship between the EU's enlargement strategies and democratization in the Western Balkan countries by looking on the impact of the strategies on changing democracy levels in two empirical cases: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia. Over more than a decade, the effect of the conditionality tool on democratization has been curbed by an insufficient emphasis placed on pro-democratic reforms and by the role of security concerns which were often prioritized over aims directly linked to democracy promotion. Grounded in the conflicting objectives theory, the thesis demonstrates that the recently employed strategy appropriately sequencing goals while prioritizing democratic transition over security concerns is more effective in inflicting domestic democratic change. Subsequently, the following necessary and sufficient conditions for a successful sequencing strategy were defined: strong emphasis on democracy-related goals combined with clearly outlined temporal perspective, and corresponding action of international actors.
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Opening of the german labor market for East European and Central European countries with Czech republic as an example
Fučík, Daniel ; Dimitrov, Michal (advisor) ; Janura, Lukáš (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals with the effects of the enlargement of the European Union and the accession of Central and Eastern European countries in 2004 on the German labor market. The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to evaluate the restrictions that were placed upon the free movement for workers from the new member countries, which were used in Germany and why these restrictions were necessary or, if they seem, from today's point of view, arbitrary. The main reasons for keeping and implementing these restrictions will be discussed throughout this thesis. Concluding this Bachelor thesis it will show the influence of Central and Eastern European countries, in particularly the Czech Republic, on the German labor market.
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Convergence of new member states of the EU
Nevoralová, Lenka ; Adámková, Vlasta (advisor) ; Neumann, Pavel (referee)
This thesis concentrates on the new member states of the European Union and their convergent processes. It is particularly focused on five Central European countries -- the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, which became the members of the European Union on 1st May 2004. The first chapter deals with the countries during their preparation process for the membership in the EU, the meeting the Copenhagen Criteria and their economic development. The second chapter is focused on the development of Central European countries in the EU. There is featured the development in the first years of their membership and during the economic crisis and the recovery. The third chapter concentrates on the processes of the real and nominal convergence in the Central Europe. Besides monitoring various stages of convergence over time there is documented the course of the convergence by the calculation of beta convergence in the European Union. At the end of the thesis there is outlined the relationship between the degree of nominal and real convergence in the concerned countries.
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Former Yugoslav states at the beginning of 21th century
Souček, Petr ; Jiránková, Martina (advisor) ; Abrhám, Josef (referee)
The first chapter of this bachelor thesis focuses on general characteristics of western Balkan region and provides basic politico-economical information about the area with emphasis on region's modern history interpretation (breakup of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav wars and current economic problems). The second part describes European Union's enlargement of former Yugoslav states. The last chapter focuses on foreign direct investments to Serbia and Croatia and foreing trade of these states with the Czech Republic.
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