Comment on: Innovations, Technological Specialization and Economic Convergence in the EU

2005 ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Andreas Pyka
Keyword(s):  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Technological Specialization ◽  
The Eu

Croatia's political weaknesses will slow growth

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Slow Growth ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Third ◽  
Business Confidence ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

Significance Inflation seems to have returned to the economy following three years of near-continual deflation. After years in the doldrums, the Croatian economy is finally experiencing respectable growth and various indicators are now pointing in the right direction. However, the recovery is based on short-term factors that cannot easily be sustained, and the foundations of the economy remain weak. Impacts The current spate of growth is helping to prop up a weak government and a socio-economic model to which many Croats are averse. Respectable growth has lifted business confidence in the third quarter to its highest level since 2009. Apparent economic convergence with the rest of the EU is reviving the question whether and when Croatia should adopt the euro.

Guilt, Sympathy, and Cooperation: EU—Baltic Relations in the Early 1990s

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainius Lasas
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Community ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Collective Guilt ◽  
Critical Window ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
The Road ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Eu

The period between March 1990 and June 1993 represents the critical window for European Union (EU)—Baltic relations. During this time Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania laid the foundation for future EU membership. For its part, the European community made a commitment to include the three republics in the process of enlargement. This paper traces the beginnings of EU—Baltic cooperation and examines factors that led to growing political and economic convergence. Nordic membership in the EU, ex-Soviet troop withdrawal, and Russian parliamentary elections were instrumental in bringing both sides together on the road to enlargement, but collective guilt provided the underlying rationale. In this paper, the author argues that it is impossible to understand fully this process of convergence without taking into account the connotations and consequences of the “black trinity”: the Munich pact, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and the Yalta agreement.

scholarly journals Socio-economic Convergence in the EU at National and Regional Level

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 1090-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Otoiu ◽  
Emilia Titan
Keyword(s):  
Regional Level ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
The Eu

Core–Periphery Relations and European Integration

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Brigid Laffan
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
State Building ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Harmonious Development ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Major Development ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
The Eu

Core–periphery relations have always played an important role within nation-states, across regions and at the global level. Given the significance of core–periphery dynamics to state building, we would expect patterns of economic convergence and divergence to matter in the process of European integration. This chapter traces how the EU addressed its treaty commitment to ‘harmonious development’ as it deepened and widened following the original aim of the Treaty of Rome. We identify a series of significant phases in the EU’s response to core–periphery relations. A key argument is that every major development in the EU, with the exception of the euro, was accompanied by policy provisions designed to alleviate divergence.

scholarly journals Macroeconomic Imbalances and the Economic Convergence of the EU candidate countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Daniela Bobeva ◽  
Dimitar Zlatinov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Macroeconomic Imbalances ◽  
Eu Candidate Countries ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The Eu

The paper assesses the relevance of the EU Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure scoreboard for the EU candidate countries. The calculation of the 14 indicators for a nine years period proves the recent economic crisis helped resolve some of the imbalances in the EU candidate countries but on the back of the slowing down the economic growth and convergence. The paper argues that MIP scoreboard fails to capture the specifics of economic developments of the caching up economies and cannot be used as a tool for assessing their readiness to join the EU.

scholarly journals Migration trends and challenges in the Visegrad countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (54) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Sandor Gallai ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
Individual Decisions ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Prospect Of Success ◽  
Visegrád Countries ◽  
The Eu

The Visegrad region experienced the aging and the decline of its population in the past 30 years, as happened in other Eastern European countries. That development was aggravated by net emigration, the scale of which was overestimated at the time of the political regime changes and underestimated after the EU Eastern expansion. This article presents and analyses the main trends in migration to and from the Visegrad countries, and tries to prove that political considerations and public attitudes often prevented the formulation of appropriate government responses. Research on the motivations for emigration found that economic opportunities prevail as the most decisive factor in individual decisions on migration. Therefore, at the governmental level, the prospect of success to slow down or reverse the flow of net emigration depends on economic convergence between the Visegrad countries and the West.

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