The process of EU enlargement involves conditioning, assisting, monitoring and checking a candidate country’s capacity to be an EU member. Those instruments have been largely credited to impact institutional change in the candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe. However, while the EU...

The European Commission is committed to providing factual information on past and future enlargements and to cooperating with strategic partners and multipliers to communicate with the public on enlargement. Broad public support is essential in order to sustain the enlargement process. The...

This paper analyses the improvement of the transition to market economies focusing on the business climate, by pointing out the progress of the countries in generating a sustainable stable enterprise environment. Most important in this context are political and economic stability, the conditions...