As a result of the achieved progress, Bulgaria and Romania will be allowed to assume the rights of membership of the European Union starting January 1st, 2007. The Commission hardly waits to welcome Romania and Bulgaria as full members of the European Union at that date.

The work is focusing on the main proportions and correlations which are being set up between the major macroeconomic indicators. This is the general frame for the analysis of the relations between the Gross Domestic Product growth rate and the unemployment rate; the interaction between the...