On the EU-maturity of Central Europe: perceived and real problems

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Enlargement of the European Union is a broad issue of prime politics. What countries to admit, how and when, under what conditions will have long been debated before any accession materialises. These issues and the related argumentation, conducted at the policymaking level are subject of a different paper of this author (Csaba, 1998). The present piece is devoted to some of the more philosophical issues to be tackled at a different level of abstraction, that of applied economic theory. It relates to three most likely candidates for Union membership: Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, as reflected in the Commission´s AGENDA 2000. These are called - in a somewhat arbitrary fashion - as Central Europe, in order to delineate them from less advanced transforming countries, that are not yet members of the OECD club of market economies. The paper is not empirical, but is meant to address a single, weighty theoretical issue: is the above described narrow Central Europe (with the possible inclusion of Slovenia) mature for a full Union membership by the first years of the new millenium? Is there an answer based on economic theory, rather than political tastes, to this question?
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationFrankfurt
PublisherEuropa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Number of pages23
StatePublished - 1997
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameFIT Arbeitsberichte = FIT discussion papers
No.97/11
ISSN (Print)1431-0708

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