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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.
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.
European Union´s foreign trade commodity structure from 1999 to 2009
Otec, Michal ; Pavlík, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Gajdušková, Kateřina (referee)
This Bachelor thesis analyzes the developement of the European Union's external foreign trade commodity structure, which means in relation to non-member countries. But because it's essential to know the context before the beginning of detailed analysis of exports' and imports' commodity structure, the development of the European Union since the end of the Second World War until today is chronologically described and analyzed in the first part of this thesis. Apart from the impotant data during the development of European integration also the consequences of this development are analyzed. Out of the most important events in the development of the European Union, I would like to point out for instance the Treaties of Rome, enlargements of the European union in 1973, 1981, 1986, 1995, 2004 and 2007, the creation of the Schengen Area or signing of Lisbon Treaty. The second part of the Bachelor thesis is already focused on analysis of the European Union's trade structure, namely on periods between years 1999-2003, 2004-2006 and 2007-2009. This distribution was chosen based on crucial events in the European Union's history, which were the introduction of the third stage of the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999, the enlargement of the union by 10 countries in 2004 and the last enlargement yet, entering of Romania and Bulgaria. European Union foreign trade's commodity structure is analyzed separately for exports, imports and trade balance in each chapter.
The problematic of Turkey´s admittance into the EU
Wessnitzer, Hong Long ; Jiránková, Martina (advisor) ; Tunkrová, Věra (referee)
The European Union ran in the process of expanding into one of the most controversial decisions of all time. This is a very inconsistent move in terms of political and economic, social, but also geographically. Does the EU accept Turkey among the members of of his family? In my thesis I will try to answer this tricky question. I will focus on the positive and negative aspects of the Turkey's admittance. On one hand I will try to refer to the economic and political benefits, on the other hand I will focus on the current and future impacts of the coming Turkey's access into the EU.

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