The extent of the economic benefits brought about by the EU's eastern enlargement will depend crucially on political factors: the kinds of institutional reform the EU has instituted up to that time, the balancing of conflicting interests between those who gain from the enlargement and those who...

Am 1. Mai 2004 wird die Europäische Union um zehn Mitgliedsländer erweitert. Wäre das Wort nicht so abgegriffen, würde man nicht zögern, dieses Datum als historisch bezeichnen. Die Erweiterung 2004 schafft einen politischen und wirtschaftlichen Raum, den es in diesem Umfang in der...

The transition process in the Eastern European countries will engage these economies much more than before into the international division of labour. They will play a greater role as both suppliers and buyers of more and of different goods. New patterns of competition will emerge. On the basis...