The EU and Third Countries: Consequences for Democracy and the Political Order

This article discusses the democratic implications of third country incorporation for EU and countries. The more transforms sovereignty in an open inclusive manner, greater scope presence, participation influence. For EU, presence influence countries, pressing incongruence. better included they participate, less incongruent their affiliation, similar to members become. These considerations depend on how structures its relations with countries nature EU's political order. It is internal market flanking areas that pooling sharing most pronounced. conundrum facing central constitution as a system.