Croatia's EU Accession: The Second Greece?

Yoji Koyama

Chapter 6 in The EU's Eastward Enlargement:Central and Eastern Europe's Strategies for Development, 2015, pp 145-171 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Croatia joined the European Union (EU) in July 2013. Croatia is the first Western Balkan country to join the EU. One of the reasons for a delay in the EU membership is that this region was quite unstable due to ethnic conflicts in the 1990s. The EU's Stability and Association Process, which began in June 1999, opened new prospects for their future membership in the EU. Croatia became an EU candidate in 2003. Accession negotiations with the EU began in October 2005. Finally in June 2011 the negotiations were closed, and in December of the same year Croatia's Accession Treaty was signed. It is a matter of congratulation that Croatia was finally admitted to the EU after a long process of negotiations, but I have to point out that this country has been facing important challenges…

Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe, EU Accession; , Eurozone Crisis, Small Countries, Western Balkans, Croatia, Greece, Albania, Expansion of EU Membership, (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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