This conference volume investigates the consequences of EU enlargement on structural economic policies in East and West, and in particular on the EU's economic policy coordination processes. Given the aspirations of the Lisbon agenda, most countries in either region face adjustment needs in the...

After completion of the internal market and the introduction of the euro, the European Union put Eastern enlargement on the agenda for the new millennium. When the enlargement process was started in 1997, it was aiming at the stability and prosperity for the entire European continent. The...

Membership in the European Union requires national economic policies to be oriented towards the Community goals of economic growth, stability and cohesion. When entering the EU in 1995, Austria's economy was characterized by a high productivity level and a successful hard currency policy, i.e....