Europos Sąjungos paramos administravimas Turkijos Respublikoje ; EU' assistance administration in Turkey Republic
In this paper it is reviewed and evaluated the implemented EU' assistance administration system in Turkey Republic. By using neo-functionalism, intergovernmental cooperation and multi-level governance theories is tried to explain Turkey's integration in EU. The beginning of Turkey – EU relations is 1963, when it was made EU – Turkey association treatment, by now to Turkey is given a candidate country status. After declared Turkey as candidate country, EU engaged to provide a financial assistance to Turkey during preparation to the EU membership process. EU provides financial assistance not only to announced candidate countries, but also to potential candidate countries for supporting non-member states to become member to EU, to become more democratic countries which respect and implement human rights, power of law, by providing financial assistance also is trying to solve social-economic problems, to promote development of countries and promote economic market. The financial assistance to candidate and potential candidate countries is provided under Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA). From the IPA establishment, the implementation of instrument was gradually decentralized by delegating more and more responsibilities to beneficial countries in this way promoting institutional capacity building. In the candidate countries the assistance is administrated by decentralized implementation method. Only based on subsidiarity and partnership principles EU assistance source reclamation might be effective and to ensure that set goals will be implemented. In this paper is analyzed Turkey government system by seeking to understand better the assistance administration system features. Turkey is described as strongly centralized country where still exist the Ottoman Empire legacy. Central government has strong powers in regard to local government and mostly decisions are made at central administration level. The same features are seen in assistance administration system. Although Turkey created the institution architecture by EU requirements, but the system is evaluated as very centralized, in the system is lack of partnership weak role of regional level institutions. According to made semi-structural interview in the end of paper there is made more detailed evaluation of EU' assistance administration system in Turkey.