EU Membership: The Quest for the Holy Grail

Oleh Havrylyshyn
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Oleh Havrylyshyn: University of Toronto

Chapter 13 in The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine, 2017, pp 279-300 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract By the time Ukraine declared its independence on 24 August 1991, nearly two years had passed since the Berlin Wall fell, and all of the Central European countries plus the Baltics were far along in negotiating formal association agreements; the Visegrad Four were signed in March 1992. These agreements compromised on the language concerning future membership. The EU (more concretely the bureaucracy of the European Commission) had been insisting they had nothing to do with accession under article 237, and concerned only association under article 238. The Central European countries (led by Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary) had been pressing for a clause noting the AA was a stage towards accession. The compromise language only stated the candidate’s ‘ultimate objective’ of eventual membership and said nothing from the EU side. Echoes of this debate are heard twenty years later in the EU–Ukraine discussions.

Keywords: Computable General Equilibrium Model; Central European Country; Full Membership; Association Agreement; Acquis Communautaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57690-3_13

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