The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe : the implications of enlargement in stages
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The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe : the implications of enlargement in stages
Ashgate, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-116) and index
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Description
This text aims to analyze the implications of the process of enlargement in the EU in stages. The first half is concerned with the criteria likely to be used in deciding whether countries are ready to join. Then follows a discussion of the consequences of enlargment in waves for the EU institutions, the structural funds, the Common Agricultural Policy and the EU budget. The following section deals with the wider economic implications for trade, competitiveness, foreign direct investment, growth, the location of industry, and labour migration, as well as the implications for foreign and security policy. The final part discusses possible solutions to the problems posed by Eastward enlargment of the EU. It concludes that this enlargment in stages will not resolve the fundamental problems posed by accession to the CEECs to the EU. To cope with increased diversity in a larger Union, other forms of differentiated integration will have to be devised.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the prospects of Eastward enlargment of the EU in stages. The EU's membership conditions - assessing fulfilment: the economic criteria for enlargement - progress in creating a functioning market economy, indicators of macroeconomic performance, progress in microeconomic restructuring and privatization, capacity to cope with competitive presures and market forces in the community, adherence to the aim of economic and monetary union, acceptance of the acquis communuataire concerning the single market
- the political criteria for enlargement. Consequences of enlargement in stages: institutional implications
- implications for budgetary expenditures and receipts - additional spending through the structural funds, additional spending on the CAP, expected contributions to the EU budget
- economic implications - the impact of enlargement in stages on trade, the impact of enlargement in stages on agricultural trade, the possibility that firms remaining outside the EU lose their relative competitivenes, the impact of enlargement in stages on foreign direct investment in the CEECs
- the impact of enlargement on growth
- possible implications on enlargement in stages for the location of industry
- labour migration
- implications for security and foreign policy. Managing enlargement in stages. How to grasp diversity - institutionalize it?
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