The Partnership Concept, and the Political Dialogue
This paper regards the means by which the European Commission organizes the political and technical dialogue between the partners representing the member States and the applicant countries. Partnership, whose legal and ideological base is never contested, is necessary on the one hand to fix the political lines which sustain cooperative activities that are linked to the process of changing Central and Eastern European States, societies and institutions. On the other hand, while giving a technical meaning and content, it contributes to the realization of these activities. The paper analyzes the semantic position of “partnership” on the European stage and the building of those relationships, which allow political, administrative and social representatives to cooperate practically. That implies the observation of the linguistic dimension of the exchanges and the projection of the rhetoric of change on the definition of the European project.