The paper focuses on one of several aspects of the Europeanisation of Central Eastern European politics by looking at the Europeanising role of interest groups in (re)shaping national policy-making processes due to influences of European Union actors, as well as European integration processes. Candidate-states' civil societies, crossing national borders with international networking, are developing into important factors of changing policy processes and policy contents within candidate-states. Research in Slovenia supports the hypothesis that European interest groups (both Euro-groups and kindred interest groups from EU member-states) have a significant impact on Europeanisation of Slovenian politics by transferring their knowledge, expertise and know-how to Slovenian interest groups as well as by supporting Slovenian interest groups in agenda-setting and all other keystages in Slovenian policy-making and policy implementation.
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