The EU member states in CESEE have converged relatively rapidly to the global frontier, some even during the recent … numbers also do so. EU membership has and will in the future potentially help convergence through several private and public … channels, but in itself EU membership is not a guarantee for continued convergence. Reforms will be needed to utilise this …

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 …