Does Eu Membership Facilitate Convergence The Experience Of The Eus Eastern Enlargement Volume I

Download or read book Does EU Membership Facilitate Convergence? The Experience of the EU's Eastern Enlargement - Volume I written by Michael Landesmann and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume analyses how EU membership influenced the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. It also explores countries that are candidates for future EU membership. The speed of convergence of significant groups of low- and medium-income countries has never been as fast globally as it is today. Contributions by lead researchers of the area explore whether these countries are converging faster than their fundamentals and global trends would suggest because of EU membership, with its much tighter institutional and political anchorage