ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on the impact of the Europeanization of environmental policy (waste management) on domestic policy-making structures in the cohesion (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) and CEE (Hungary and Poland) states. It focuses on the response of the national institutional infrastructure in terms of policy learning and adaptation to the EC policy environment. The emphasis is on the degree of adaptational pressures per country with a comparative assessment of the learning capacity of the pre-existing domestic governance structures.
