The relationship between the EU and Central Eastern Europe is one of the key issues for the future integration of Europe. This book explores EU/CEE relations since 1989 and the conditions that have shaped them, focusing on the contribution by the EU to political, economic and social change within CEE countries in the context of a gradually emerging European policy. Areas covered include democracy, economics, gender, the environment and regional security. The volume is divided into two parts. Part one examines EU-CEE relations in the context of the themes mentioned above, with a range of contemporary evidence from most Central and Eastern European country experiences. Part two concentrates on four case studies - the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and Poland - with each reflecting those themes in Part one of the book relevant to their particular relationship with the EU. The book concludes with two detailed chronologies of EU-CEE relations and a summary of the current Agenda 2000 proposal for EU enlargement.