The emergence of new public administration, which can be brought up to the industrial revolution; With its innovative principles such as transparency, accountability, total quality management, performance management, which are not in the traditional public administration, many countries have pacified themselves and made reforms in public areas.This study aims to reveal the change in public administration and the main sources of this change and to reveal the effects of the European Union (EU) on the change in public administration as an actor. For this purpose, the progress the EU is prepared to Turkey since 1998. Reports were subjected to content analysis. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that the rhetoric produced in the progress reports resembled the new public administration framework and produced a pressure to adapt to the new public administration logic