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Open Society and EU Accession: Two Views
Joining the European Union means many things to people in accession candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Their enthusiasm, animosity, or ambivalence is often shaped by the politics, the media, and the economy of each candidate country.
In an interview with OSI that appears in the Spring-Summer 2002 edition of Open Society News, Aap Neljas, an Open Estonia Foundation board member and advisor to the Estonian Minister of Regional Affairs, and Antoinette Primatarova, project director at the Center for Liberal Strategies in Bulgaria, discuss how the EU may affect open society issues in two countries at different stages of the accession process. (Note: Estonia is expected to join the EU in 2004, while Bulgaria is likely to join in 2007.)
