before and after accession to the EU -- 8. Bulgaria and Romania: The Latecomers to the Eastern Enlargement -- 9. Convergence …1. Introduction -- 2. Convergence of the EU member states in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe (EU11): a …This edited volume analyses the ways in which EU membership contributed to the convergence process of member countries …

and the process of structural reforms in what were then four candidate countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Turkey …

The twenty years since the Eastern Enlargement of the EU in 2004 have generally borne out the hopes that at the time … steadily converged with those in the EU15. The substantial initial income gaps did lead to very substantial labour migration … other issues this should be addressed as the EU considers a reinforced cohesion policy and a likely renewed wave of eastern …

significantly change its gas flow patterns. TAP brings in Azeri pipeline gas, start-up of Croatia LNG and higher utilisation of … Greece’s Revithoussa has brought more LNG to the region, and opening of the Greece-Bulgaria interconnector has improved … projects are completed over the next 5 years. There is also the Black Sea upstream, with Romania’s Neptun deep awaiting FID and …

In this paper, I reflect on selected economic and institutional indicators of Croatia and Bulgaria ahead of the … option. It is an obligation of each EU member state, as laid down in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union … (TFEU) as soon as a member state sustainably fulfills the convergence criteria. For some countries, euro adoption will …

countries to seek to join the euro area created any forces fostering their convergence, evidence which would be in line with the … integration of the six new member states and that, at present, they are quite well aligned with the eurozone …

convergence theorem, new member countries have highest growth rate than the EU and Euro Area in income per capita in 1995 …This study aims to investigate possible developments in the Turkish economy, in case Turkey becomes a full member of … the European Union (EU), by examining the economic performances of the new members of the EU in the 2000s. Due to the …