Civil Society and Environmental Activism in One EU-funded Transport Development Project in Slovakia

Torsello Davide

Eastern European Countryside, 2010, vol. 16, issue 2010, 25-43

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of how civil society emerges as a by-product of EU-funded structural development projects in Eastern Europe, in the case of Slovakia. The case study is indicative of how local forms of civil society can gain strength and establish public legitimacy thanks to the growing divide between national and local political orientations. However, it is due to the planning and implementation processes of the motorway construction project, under the umbrella of the Trans-European Transport Network, that different layers of power from state to local level emerge and consolidate. The interplay and conflict in these layers endanger accountability, economic as well as environmental sustainability.

Keywords: civil society; Slovakia; TEN-T; environmentalism; power; civil society; Slovakia; TEN-T; environmentalism; power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.2478/v10130-010-0002-8

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