After almost a decade since the enlargement of the European Union to Central and Eastern Europe, history can be read … carefully now, because the consequences of those negotiations are felt even today. Covering under the mask of enlargement, we … candidate countries towards the old EU members. In this study, I analyse the merit of Günter Verheugen, the technocrat who found …

Twenty years after the EU accession of the Visegrád countries-- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary - we … Germany and France. Secondly, a convergence of unit labour costs in manufacturing is detectable, which is not yet complete …

10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article … on convergence was confirmed as well as the dependence of growth from the business environment in EU10. The added value …

with the euro area and conclude that continuing integration within the EU is likely to align the business cycles of these … E32, F42.Keywords: Optimum currency area, EU enlargement, structural VAR …We assess the correlation of supply and demand shocks between current countries in the euro area and EU accession …

This study examines whether the CEECs' financial market development can explain the EU FDI in the CEECs during 1994 … sector reforms undertaken before the CEECs' EU accession. Second, the stock market size had a positive effect in 1997 …-2004. This is due to the fact that the EU membership announcement facilitated deeper stock market integration. Third, the higher …

Bulgaria and Romania, the last two participants in EU's large Eastern Enlargement, joined the Union more than two years … per se does not guarantee convergence to the EU’s frontier(s), sustainable growth in prosperity and the degree to which … period after accession and also seeks to analyse to what extent EU membership has helped them to converge to the EU frontier …

integration between most of the largest CEECs and the euro area is already relatively well advanced, while some Baltic and South …This paper analyses the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC's) with the euro … area in the past ten years and draws implications for further integration. We use as benchmark an enhanced gravity model …

with any other rational reason such as the level of integration into the EU real economy, or the level of trust in the EU …"The idea of this volume comes from the enigma that some Central and Eastern European (CEE) European Union (EU) member … joining have seemingly not correlated with either the level of economic development or the time spent as part of the EU, nor …