Prospects for Further (South-) Eastern EU Enlargement: From Divergence to Convergence?

Vladimir Gligorov, Mario Holzner and Michael Landesmann

Chapter 12 in Shaping the New Europe, 2004, pp 315-345 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter looks at the experiences of South-East Europe, which for the purposes of this chapter comprises the former states of Yugoslavia minus Slovenia (that is, Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia), Albania and the two EU candidate countries, Bulgaria and Romania. For all these economies, accession to the EU will be the main driving force behind the policy-making agenda for the foreseeable future, albeit with considerably different time horizons. The reason why we shall treat these countries as a group – even though, as we shall see below, they differ quite markedly in many respects – is that for more than any other set of economies (with the possible exception of Turkey) the EU accession agenda will dominate the countries themselves and the way in which the outside world views them in the coming years.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Current Account; Informal Sector; Trade Balance; Shadow Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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Working Paper: Prospects for Further (South) Eastern EU Enlargement: Form Divergence to Convergence? (2003)
Working Paper: Prospects for Further (South-) Eastern EU Enlargement: from Divergence to Convergence? (2003)
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