According to Richard Youngs, a researcher at the Spanish Foundation for International Relations and external dialogue (FRIDE) «the EU’s unwillingness to extend official membership perspectives dampens the incentive for democratic reforms». His paper, which information was co-gathered by Michael Emerson of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), talks of the decline of the bloc’s influence in terms of political model. www.ceps.eu – www.fride.org
