CREECA Lecture Series

Upon the collapse of communist regimes, Central and East European countries aspired to EU membership, as it would help liberate them from the weight of the Iron Curtain. The postsocialist transformations have been intimately linked with Europeanization of this region so it seemed obvious EU membership would act as a positive influence. Bandelj problematizes this assumption and tries to answer a few concrete questions about the impacts of EU accession and membership of these countries.