Trade in Central and Eastern European countries ten years after their EU accession — Is there convergence?

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-460
Author(s):  
Martin Grančay ◽  
Ērika Šumilo ◽  
Jolita Vveinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Production Structure ◽  
Eastern Enlargement ◽  
Member States ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Sigma Convergence ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Eu

The paper focuses on the effects of EU’s Eastern Enlargement of 2004 on trade convergence within the EU and among the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE-8). Using sigma-convergence approach, it finds evidence of convergence of exports and imports per capita as well as of productivity levels associated with the member states’ export baskets. Convergence of territorial and commodity structures of trade has not occurred; conversely, divergence has been observed, leading to the possible conclusion that multinational companies have adjusted their production structure in facilities across the EU to achieve higher economies of scale. Correlation analysis shows that revealed comparative advantages of the old and new member states have come closer to each other. As an example, the paper also offers a brief comparison of trade development in two CEE-8 countries, Latvia and Slovakia, after their entry into the EU.

FDI patterns and trends in central and eastern Europe with particular regard to the new Member States

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-537
Author(s):  
Gábor Hunya ◽  
Béla Galgóczi
Keyword(s):  
Direct Investment ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The West ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Eu

This article examines foreign direct investment (FDI) in the European context and assesses the significance of relocation of production and workplaces from the west to the east. The first part of the article provides a statistical overview of FDI in central and eastern European countries (CEECs) for the last five years. Structural features of FDI flow and stock are presented and the trend of an increasing role for reinvested profits is examined. The second part focuses on the qualitative features of FDI and foreign trade. It provides evidence of the incidence of relocation, the growing role of intra-industrial trade, and the changing role of manufacturing in the economies of the EU-15 and the CEECs.

scholarly journals Regional Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe and its Implications for the EU

European View ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktória Jančošekovà
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Visegrád Countries ◽  
The Eu

Regional cooperation is mutually beneficial collaboration between neighbouring countries. This holds regardless of whether it is a matter of cooperation between the Benelux countries, the Nordic–Baltic states, France and Germany, or the Visegrad countries. The last-mentioned countries' dismissive attitude to tackling the migration crisis has thrust them into the limelight. The most recent cooperative forums in the Central Eastern Europe region, such as the Slavkov Triangle and the Three Seas Initiative, evidence a new dynamic and a regrouping of forces on the basis of national interests and EU themes. Western and Eastern Europe have different approaches to the most pressing challenges, such as migration. These differences have caused deep divisions between their respective leaders. However, the disagreements on the migration issue and the future of the EU notwithstanding, regional cooperation among the Central and Eastern European countries remains valuable in areas that include the integration process, security and defence.

scholarly journals Up or Down the Value Chain? A Comparative Analysis of the GVC Position of the Economies of the New EU Member States

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (48) ◽  
pp. 19-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Hagemejer ◽  
Mahdi Ghodsi
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The pattern of trade of the Central and Eastern European countries has been changing since the beginning of the economic transition in the early 1990s. By the end of the century this process was additionally strengthened by their integration with the European Union and overlapped with the development of global value chains (GVC) spanning across Europe with which the new member states (NMS) have become increasingly integrated. In this paper, we shed light on these changes by analysing the position of the NMS within the global value chains. We employ the upstreamness measure proposed by Antràs et al. (2012) and use the World Input–Output Database. Although we observe a global increasing trend in the upstreamness of all countries, we find that the NMS have in many cases gone against this trend while converging in their production structure within their group and with the EU-15. This convergence is mostly observed in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia where the level of upstreamness in the most important exporting sectors was close to that of Germany by the end of the analysed period 1995−2011.

scholarly journals The Influence of EU Law on Public Administration in New Member States

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Radomír Jakab
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Member States ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Almost All

The membership of Central and Eastern European countries in the European Union has influenced the development of almost all branches of law, including administrative law. The paper analyses the influence of European Union law on the fundamental object of interest of administrative law within new member states – on public administration and its laws. In this context, the influence on laws governing the organisation of public administration, laws governing the activities and tasks of public administration as well as laws governing processes in public administration will be assessed.

scholarly journals Poland in the single European market—changes in the similarity of import and export structures in comparison with the EU-10 countries in 2004–2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Edward Molendowski ◽  
Wojciech Polan
Keyword(s):  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Single Market ◽  
European Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eastern Enlargement ◽  
Member States ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Single European Market ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
The Eu

Abstract It is a common knowledge that the eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) was an extremely important undertaking for both the New Member States (EU-10) and the “old Union” countries (EU-15). One of the most important effects was significant acceleration of the development of mutual trade links, including changes in their commodity structure. In the study presented in this article, we attempted to verify the hypothesis whether, as a consequence of the eastern enlargement, the EU-10 and EU-15 markets were increasingly treated by the exporters and importers from Poland as a single market. In analyzing changes in the similarity of import and export structures, we calculated “Euclidean distance” (in 2004–2017), the measure based on absolute differences of individual structure indices. We compared the results for Poland with the other New Member States operating on the single European market. We found that for more than a dozen years Polish exporters and importers have contributed to the increasing similarity of the structures of their respective countries’ trade and the EU patterns mostly shaped by the EU-15. The results reflect the ongoing unification of the foreign trade system and its arrangement toward the recognition of both areas as a single market.

EU Accession of Central and Eastern European Countries: Democracy and Integration as Conflicting Logics

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi Raik
Keyword(s):  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Democracy Promotion ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The Eu

Although the European Union (EU) has in many ways supported democratization in Central and Eastern Europe, it has also imposed new constraints on the functioning of democracy. The article explores the indirect impact of EU integration on the Eastern applicant countries by exposing the underlying logic of enlargement and analyzing the implications of that logic for democratic politics. The empirical analysis focuses on the preaccession process of one of the new member states, Estonia, but it also examines the overall EU policy toward Eastern candidates, pointing to the limits of enlargement as a form of democracy promotion. It highlights that the principles and norms that dominated enlargement—most notably inevitability, speed, efficiency, and expertise—constrained democratic politics in the applicant countries and limited their EU accession to a narrow sphere of elites and experts. The author links the findings with the democratic deficit in the EU and draws some conclusions concerning future prospects of democracy in and democracy promotion by the enlarged EU.

scholarly journals Disclosure of Evidence in Central and Eastern European Countries in Light of the Implementation of the Damages Directive

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 197-221
Author(s):  
Inese Druviete ◽  
Jūlija Jerņeva ◽  
Aravamudhan Ulaganathan Ravindran
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Evidence Disclosure ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Eu

The article looks primarily at the material comprised in the volume edited by A. Piszcz, Implementation of the EU Damages Directive in Central and Eastern European Countries published in 2017 and based on that compares aspects of the disclosure of evidence issue in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The purpose of this article is to look into how the process for the disclosure of evidence has evolved in eleven countries of the European Union in light of Directive 2014/104/EU. The article looks at six key issues with regard to disclosure of evidence in light of Directive 2014/104/EU: general procedural issues; procedure for the submission of evidence; criteria for the disclosure of evidence; restrictions on the disclosure of evidence; disclosure of evidence by parties other than the defendant; and consequences of the failure to comply with a request to submit evidence. The article relies on primary data from eleven EU countries from Central and Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF GERMANY IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
Leonid GUSEV
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
The Eu

It is necessary to specify that as a result of the (unification?) of Germany in 1990, its eastern frontier directly bordered with a number of former communist states. Since the beginning of the 90 years of cooperation with these states one of Germany’s main tasks became rendering aid to them in carrying out reforms. Germany, being one of leaders of the EU was interested in involvement of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the European market and in receiving benefits from this cooperation, besides; in the political sphere it was important to create a common and stable Europe. One can add that stability and safety in Europe was connected with EU expansion to the East. This article also analyzes how in recent years Germany has been influencing the countries of Central and Eastern Europe; demonstrating that Germany cooperated with countries of Eastern Europe not only within the European Union, but also in a bilateral format since for Germany, entry of the countries of the Central and Eastern European countries into the EU into EU was communicated with the realization of a complex of social, economic and political interests with the Visegrád group.

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