To what extent do the European Union’s state-building mechanisms undermine or promote democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?

To what extent do the European Union?s state-building mechanisms undermine or promote democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?

This paper should focus on the impact of the European Union enlargement on both the accession states and the EU itself.
considering whether the asymmetry in power relations and the use of policy conditionalities means that the EU is promoting democracy through means that restrict the public sphere and may have counterproductive effects.