Organising for eu enlargement: a challenge for the member states and the candidate states

The focus of this policy relevant research project is on processes of small-state Europeanisation in three existing Member States and three candidate states. The emphasis is on organisational and process adaptation at the level of the Core Executive (Phase One) and across different levels of government (phase Two). As the next rounds of enlargement will add many more small states to the Union, a deeper understanding of their adaptation to membership will contribute significantly to the growing body of knowledge on the Europeanisation of public policy making. The manner in which small states adapt to EU governance has a major bearing on their experience of membership and their ability to benefit there from.