Влияние государственной автономии и государственной состоятельности стран-членов Европейского союза на их (не)подчинение директивам ЕСThe effects of state autonomy and state capacity of the European union member states on their (non-)compliance with the EU directives

The European Union, as a system of multilevel governance, implies complex mechanisms of interaction between different levels – supranational, national and regional. A key indicator of the effectiveness and stability of these ties is the level of compliance of the EU member states with the European Union directives. Despite the efforts of the EU supranational institutions to force the EU member countries to transpose, implement and apply the parts of acquis communaitaire, there is a significant differentiation in the level of compliance in the pool of these states. One can find three dimensions of this differentiation: (1) by the total number of violations of the EU directives, (2) by the violations of EU directives by type and (3) by annual dynamics of violations. In this study, I examined the factors of state capacity and state autonomy of the EU member states through the lenses of structural and consociational approaches in order to identify the reasons for the division of member states into ‘winners’ and ‘laggards’ in the area of compliance.
Two important conclusions can be drawn from the empirical analysis. First, the analysis demonstrated the importance of considering the compliance patterns through the prism of three levels of the EU multi-level governance: supranational, national and regional. An analysis of combinations of factors of state capacity and state autonomy, which are associated with the interaction of actors occupying different niches in the EU governance architecture, makes it possible to give a more accurate explanation of the (non-)compliance phenomenon in the European Union. Second, the results of the analysis demonstrate that the reasons for non-compliance are not uniform when it comes to different types of violations.