Starting on 1st of May 2004, 11 countries in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe and in the Baltics (EU11) joined …

1. Introduction -- 2. Convergence of the EU member states in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe (EU11): a … -- 4. Regional dynamics in EU11 -- 5. How the European Union made Poland European Again -- 6. Transformation of the … financing and foreign trade model of the Hungarian economy after EU accession -- 7. Macroeconomic trends in the Baltic States …

1.Introduction -- 2.The economic impact of Single Market membership on the EU enlargement countries -- 3. FDI as force … of convergence in the CESEE countries -- 4.The impact of EU cohesion funds on macroeconomic development in the Visegrad … countries after the 2008-2009 financial crisis -- 5. The impact of the EU Cohesion policy spending: a model-based assessment …

This chapter offers a framework to analyse the impact of EU membership on economic ("means"), institutional ("ways …") and social ("ends") convergence of EU11 countries to the frontier. It identifies the channels through which this impact … works: trade, investment, finance, migration and institutions. Using this framework, the analysis finds that EU membership …