In this Policy Brief, Milena Lazarevic and Corina Stratulat review the origins of civil society involvement in the public sector reforms leading to a country’s accession to the European Union. The search for civil society allies represents a promising break with the legacy of previous accessions in which governments were the Commission’s only trusted interlocutors. 

This policy brief was originally published by European Policy Centre – EPC, as part of the collaboration with the Think for Europe Network, under the framework of the WeBER project.