The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 35 “The European Union’s Alternative Models for Maximizing its Integration Strategy for Candidates and Neighbour States: A Process of External Differentiation“ by Meltem Müftüler-Baç and Brooke Luetgert has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 34 “More Integrated but Also More Divided: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment and the Cohesion Policy in Eastern Europe“ by Gergő Medve-Bálint and Dorothee Bohle has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 33 “Local Government Debt and EU Funds in the Eastern Member States: The Cases of Hungary and Poland“ by Gergő Medve-Bálint and Dorothee Bohle has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 32 “The Limits of EU Enlargement Linked to Citizens’ Perceptions of Past and Future Enlargements” by Elitsa G. Kortenska has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 31 “Public-Elite Gap on European Integration: The Missing Link between Discourses about EU Enlargement among Citizens and Elites in Serbia” by Elitsa G. Kortenska, Indraneel Sircar and Bernard Steunenberg has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 30 “The EU’s Evolving Enlargement Strategies: Does Tougher Conditionality Open the Door for Further Enlargement?” by Antoaneta L. Dimitrova has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 29 “The Adventures of the CVM in Bulgaria and Romania, No. 29, August 2016” by Georgi Dimitrov, Kaloyan Haralampiev and Stoycho Stoychev has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 26 “Varieties of Dis-embedded Liberalism – EU Integration Strategies in the Eastern Peripheries of Europe” by László Bruszt and Julia Langbein has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 22 “Compliance after Conditionality: Why Are the European Union's New Member States So Good?” by Ulrich Sedelmeier has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 20 “Notified and Substantive Compliance with the EU Law in an Enlarged Europe: Evidence from Four Policy Areas” by Asya Zhelyazkova, Cansarp Kaya and Reini Schrama has been published. You can download the Working Paper here. 

The MAXCAP Working Paper No. 19 "Larger and More Law Abiding? The Impact of Enlargement on Compliance in the European Union" by Tanja A. Börzel und Ulrich Sedelmeier has been published. You can download the Working Paper here.

After three years of intense research, MAXCAP came to an official end on March 31, 2016. In the sixth, and last, edition of our newsletter we present our key findings on the integration capacity of the European Union and policy implications of our scientific results. The MAXCAP Newsletter Issue 06/2016 can be found here.