The Role of the European Union in Promoting Democracy in Eastern Europe: Analysis of Slovakia and Croatia

Student: Milivinti Serena

Supervisor: Dmitry Zaytsev

Educational Programme: Political Analysis and Public Policy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

The countries of Central Eastern Europe1 have undergone a lot of changes in their political configurations in the last decades. Actually, the entire European continent seem to have found a new environment of peace and stability if compared to the past centuries. The role of the European Union has been of undeniable importance in this achievement: the supranational body has not only expanded geographically but it has evolved in its characteristics as well. Together with its enlargement, prosperity and better living conditions have hit the former communist countries.

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