budget constraints should lead to a forward looking European enlargement policy towards candidate countries with agriculture …

" The imminent enlargement of the EU to as many as twenty-seven member states in the near future will pose severe … budgetary, administrative, and operational challenges for the current member states. However, the challenges of enlargement, as … economy; 3) reducing the high levels of unemployment and large government, trade, and current account deficits; 4) financing …

and persistent unemployment compared to Estonia during the period of EU enlargement. Traditional labour market … others suffer long periods of costly adjustment, typically high and persistent unemployment and temporary output losses. We … enlargement, which led to a modernization of many sectors in Eastern countries and to a fast decline of traditional industries and …