East European Transition and EU Enlargement

2002 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
East European

Poor governance, weak institutions will dog eastern EU

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
Euro Crisis ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Member States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
East European ◽  
Weak Institutions ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Eu

Subject Instability in eastern EU. Significance The EU has long reinforced Central-East European (CEE) member states with regulations and constraints. As it became absorbed in the euro-crisis and the nationalist surge, these countries felt less constrained and freer to act. Consequently, short-term or incoherent policy goals and elite-driven illiberal agendas are impeding good governance, anti-corruption efforts and further democratisation in some of CEE; none are exempt from government instability and rising nationalism. Impacts Instability in CEE is likely to discourage bold decisions on EU enlargement to North Macedonia and Albania. Economic malaise will make CEE governments less choosy regarding Chinese investments. An increasingly disenchanted public will be even more susceptible to internal and Russian disinformation campaigns.

scholarly journals Strefa euro a nowe kraje członkowskie Unii Europejskiej - dywergencja czy konwergencja gospodarcza?

2004 ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Aldona Zawojska
Keyword(s):  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Convergence Criteria ◽  
East European ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
The Eu

Economic and Monetary Union is unique in that it combines centralised conduct of monetary policy by the European Central Bank (ECB) with national sovereignty over fiscal and other economic policies. Its main goals are providing greater macroeconomic stability and improving economic efficiency in the euro area. After implementation of the EU enlargement on l May 2004, the ten new EU member states now face the challenge of joining the Eurozone. Central and East European Countries (CEEC) differ significantly with regards to their economic performance. Of the eight countries in Central and Eastern Europe joined the EU, only Estonia and Lithuania currently meet all the Maastricht convergence criteria. EU membership gives the opportunity to catch up, but the actual economic outcomes depend on the quality of domestic policies.

Articles Originally Presented at the EISS Conference on ‘EU Enlargement and Social Security’: Pension Reform in the East European Accession Countries

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Müller
Keyword(s):  
Pension Reform ◽  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
East European ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Accession Countries ◽  
Made In

This paper focuses on the recent pension reform choices in the East European accession countries, which have seen many developments in this highly sensitive policy area. The paper does not discuss the desirability of alternative pension reform paths but, instead, seeks to explain how different pension reform choices came to be made in five EU accession countries. Three of the countries – Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria – represent countries which have adopted partial pension privatisation, while the other two countries – the Czech Republic and Slovenia – have reformed existing PAYG schemes without resorting to privatisation. The behaviour of individual and collective actors in the pension reform arena in each of these countries and the economic, political and institutional constraints on them are analysed in an attempt to explain why some countries have opted for radical reforms while other have not.

scholarly journals "CYCLIST ON THE MARSH": LESSONS AND PROSPECTS OF THE LAST EU ENLARGEMENT

2013 ◽  
pp. 106-112
Author(s):  
A. I. Tevdoy-Bourmouli
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Members ◽  
East European ◽  
European Union Enlargement ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The Eu ◽  
West European

The latest cycle of the European Union enlargement generated a panoply of problems unknown of in the anamnesis of this organisation. Specific historic experience of the applicants pre-determined a considerable specialty of west-European fashioned democratic regimes in those countries, weakness of consensus and tolerance culture which has already rooted itself in the West-European society, and which has to a considerable degree secured stable development of Western Europe over the last decades. This constellation resulted particularly in the renaissance on the level of European establishment of the nationalist phobia and memories deeply buried decades ago. Though the scale of the eventual problems was evident to the EU leaders long before the official entry of Central and East-European (CEE) countries to the European Union, it neither blocked the admission of new members nor entailed a refusal to pursue the plans of further enlargement at the time when Brussels’ fears have panned out. The paradox is predetermined by the combination of the EU motives – common interests of the integration group with the interests both of individual members and outside actors.

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