In this paper, we track fiscal authority behaviour in the ten new EU member states (NSM) in the period which … immediately preceded their EU accession. We first present basic stylized facts about public budgets of those countries. The paper …

The European Union (EU) accepted ten new member states (NMS) in 2004. These countries, mostly former socialist … countries, have had to adjust their economic policies to the EU’s standards. Perhaps most difficult has proven to be fiscal … the time period that immediately preceded their EU accession. We analyse the structure and scale of these countries …