Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Table of Cases; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Tables and Figures; Introduction; 1 Corruption: concept, importance and international response; 2 The scope of EU legal powers and development of the policy in the area of anti-corruption; 3 The EU strategy against corruption within the Member States; 4 Conditionality in the EU accession process; 5 The EU's evaluation of corruption in the Central and Eastern European candidate countries
6 The EU anti-corruption strategy towards the Central and Eastern European candidate countries: achievement or missed opportunity?7 The impact of 2004 enlargement on the EU anti-corruption policy; 8 Conclusion; List of interviews and consultations; Appendix 1 Council of Europe Resolution (97) 24 on the Twenty Guiding Principles for the Fight Against Corruption (adopted on 6 November 1997); Appendix 2 Ten Principles for Improving the Fight Against Corruption in Acceding, Candidate and Other Third Countries; Bibliograp
Summary
Analyses anti-corruption policy within EU Member States and the evolution of anti-corruption policy during the accession process
