In 2004 the European Union was enlarged with ten new member states,
eight of them previously communist states in Central and Eastern
Europe. This enlargement was without precedent in the history of
the Union and its predecessors. It is still to be seen how well the
institutions as well as the citizens of the Union are able to cope
with the consequences of this operation.
The authors of this volume evaluate the effect of that enlargement
on its legitimacy. They do so by assessing the effects of
enlargement on the functioning of the process of political
representation in the European Union and on the feelings of the
European people towards the Union. This study is mainly based on
data from the European Election Study 2004. This study made it for
the first time possible to compare the attitudes and behavior of
citizens in the enlargement countries, in particular in Central and
Eastern Europe, with their counterparts in the older member states.
Some of the findings of this study are counterintuitive. In many
respects the effects of enlargements are much smaller than often
argued. The party systems of the new member states and the
attitudes and behavior of the voters of individual parties are very
compatible with their counterparts in the older member states,
making further European integration relatively easy. The same can
be said about members of the European Parliament. On the other hand
the mutual trust of the people in the older and new member states
is extremely low and undermines the legitimacy of the enlarged
Union.
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