THE IMPACT OF CONDITIONALITY ON THE TEMPORAL ASPECT OF ACCESSION PROCESS OF CANDIDATE STATES TO THE EU: TURKEY AND SERBIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı Avrupa Birliği’nin (AB) katılım kriterlerini tüm aday ülkelere objektif biçimde uygulayıp uygulamadığını incelemektir. Analizin temel odaklarını katılım sürecinin zamansal boyutu ve koşulluluk politikasının etkisi oluşturmaktadır. Bu amaçla, Türkiye ve Sırbistan’ın AB’ye katılım süreçleri karşılaştırılacaktır. Bu iki örnekten biri en uzun süredir katılım için beklemekte olan ülke iken diğeri sürece en son katılan ve görece olarak hızlı ilerleyen bir ülkedir. Örnekler üyelik öncesi geçirdikleri süreçler açısından karşılaştırılmaktadır; zamansal boyut, AB tarafından sürülen koşullar ve süreç içerisinde elde edilen ödüller, örneğin dolaşım serbestisi, ele alınmaktadır. Ulaşılan sonuçlara göre koşulluluk ilkesinin uygulanmasında iki aday ülke için niteliksel ve niceliksel açılardan farklılıklar tespit edilmiş ve ortaya konulmuştur.

THE IMPACT OF CONDITIONALITY ON THE TEMPORAL ASPECT OF ACCESSION PROCESS OF CANDIDATE STATES TO THE EU: TURKEY AND SERBIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine whether the EU implements the accession criteria objectively to all candidate states. The temporal dimension of the accession process and the impact of conditionality are the focus points to analyze. For this purpose, a comparison of Turkey and Serbia with regards to their EU accession processes is conducted. The cases are composed of the longest waiting candidate and the last candidate with relatively fast moving process. The cases are compared according to the time they spent in the way to membership, the conditions that have put forward by the EU and the prizes they received in the process, i.e. the free movement right. The findings point out to the difference in the implementation of conditionality for the two candidate states both in terms of quality and quantity. 

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