TY - BOOK AU - Gallagher,Tom TI - Romania and the European Union: how the weak vanquished the strong SN - 9781781702260 AV - DR268 .R663 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - European Union KW - Membership KW - Romania KW - Political corruption KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; The EU discovers Romania --; Crafty natives lead the Eurocrats astray --; The futility of EU funding --; Labour of Sisyphus: administrative reform in Romania --; Justice clings to its chains: 1989-2004 --; NATO, the EU and Romania's strategy of duplicity --; The EU at its most incoherent: April-December 2004 --; The EU regains and loses the initiative: 2005-07 --; Corruption and anti-corruption --; The expiry of reform after 2007; 2; b N2 - According to Tom Gallagher, Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceausescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. He argues convincingly that Brussels was tricked into offering full membership to this Balkan country UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=515099&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -