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"This chapter examines the effects of the EU accession process on privatization in the steel sector of the four largest producers in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia. While the outcome to date in these countries is relatively uniform in that their largest steelworks have been integrated into global production chains, becoming subsidiaries of some of the largest multinational steel producers, the pressures, which led to this outcome were far from uniform. The chapter argues that the EU pressures are complemented by globalization pressures, both bottom-up/ market and top-down/ institutional, in bringing about convergence in the type of ownership. Dominant external pressure, however, is mediated by existing state capacity and domestic politics. Thus, the chapter attempts to bridge the gap between the transition and Europeanization literatures, showing how domestic considerations mediate EU influence while also noting the effects of external coercion on domestic context." (author's abstract)