Baas, Timo; Schrooten, Mechthild - In: Weekly Report 1 (2005) 18, pp. 221-226
On 1 May 2004 eight former socialist countries - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia - joined the European Union. In the accession year the new EU member states have experienced powerful macroeconomic dynamics, and convergence of...