• University of Nairobi

• HISTORY AN 023

Can the EU Public Policy Making be Described as Europeanized? Name Institution Instructor Date of Submission This study source was downloaded by 100000858628121 from CourseHero.com on 12-08-2022 00:24:19 GMT -06:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/97406356/Europeanizationdocx/ EUROPEANIZATION 2 Can the EU Public Policy Making be Described as Europeanized? The European Union (EU) started in the 1950s as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). Comprising of 28 European states, EU is the world’s largest tariff-free trading zone. Although there are other international and regional organizations with more member states, the EU is the most influential by far. The EU is fundamentally different from other international organizations such as the United Nations particularly because of the level of control and direction it has on its members. It is for this reason that the EU is called a supranational organization. According to Hlavac (2010), the EU has the characteristics of both a state and an organization thereby making it different from other projects of regional integration. The supranational nature of the EU gives the organization extensiv