I ca. 30 kapitler, fra landbrug til beskatning over miljø, SMV, uddannelse og transport, underkastes ansøgerlandenes lovgivning, statsforvaltning, sociologi og endog moral en nøje undersøgelse, som i disse lande, der har levet under åg, må vække erindringer om en tyngende praksis, som endnu ikke er glemt.
In around thirty chapters, from agriculture to taxation, via the environment, SMEs, education and transport, the laws of the candidate countries, their administrations, their sociologies and even their morals are being closely examined with a police-style scrutiny that must remind these former countries suffused with a proletarian morality of heavy-handed practices that have still not been forgotten.