The EU and the Economies of the Eastern European Enlargement

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Curzio, Alberto Quadrio (Editor), Fortis, Marco (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2008.
• Subjects: Macroeconomics.; European Economic Community literature.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; European Integration.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.

The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants in the EU population, and has especially brought along major challenges and important opportunities both for the "new" countries and for the "old" membe...