The global financial crisis created new challenges for the states that have joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007, but that are not yet members of the Euro zone; the maintenance of the convergence indicators below the reference values is a real challenge for the new EU member states. This...

The importance of compliance with nominal convergence criteria is crucial for adopting the euro in New Member States (NMS). Although some of these countries have made remarkable efforts for complying with nominal criteria, structural and conjunctional macroeconomic imbalances have created big...

The project goal is to realize a pragmatic and analytical study on the new economic governance regarding the adoption of the single currency by the new member states of the European Union, while identifying the trends of major interest for Romania within the new post-crisis context. On these...

This article is a result of the usual debates taking place within our research centre, being conducted by the research team that has been dealing for several years with the adoption of the euro by the new member states of the European Union (EU). The recent financial crisis brought in the middle...

As of September 2008, the vulnerabilities accumulated during the previous periods overlapped the devastating effects of the crisis in the new member states (NMS) of the European Union, deteriorating the main macro-indicators and increasing the economic instability, which generated a profound...

The global economic and financial crisis has had an impact on the economies of the new Member States of the European Union (NMS) since September 2008. After the outbreak of the crisis, these countries’ external deficits have diminished. In the new Member States, which had the highest current...

Europe faces huge challenges such as the current economic and financial crisis, climate changes, sustainable development, energetic security etc. To meet these challenges, European Union (EU) needs some tools that are offered by Lisbon Treaty signed on December 13, 2007. This treaty guarantees,...