Tag: new member states

This paper, prepared by Credit Suisse Economic Research, analyses the prospects for further expansion of the eurozone into the new member states and the possible timeframe in which this could occur.

A report measuring the competitiveness of Europe’s regions and nations shows a large divide between West and East Europe, as new member states struggle to compete in international markets.

The Access Initiative, a global coalition of public interest groups, carried out a report on comparative levels of ‘environmental democracy’ among a selection of central and east  European countries.

A report by the consultancy Burson-Marsteller gave a positive account of the 2004 enlargement “big bang”, while public awareness is still lagging behind.

This ENEPRI Research Report by Corinne Mette shows that elderly dependency is not yet a problem for the new member states, but is likely to be in the future.

Researchers of the Centre for Social and Economic Research (CASE) analyse the impact of tax wedges on employment and find that the consequences of tax wedge might be devastating for low-skilled labour.

Jakob von Weizsäcker (from the economic think tank Bruegel) analyzes European immigration patterns from a skills' level perspective, and introduces policy proposals for the EU to open up to highly qualified migrants.

In its special issue on financial markets, Revue Elargissement takes stock of the EU-10 states' stock exchanges.

The absence of an EU budget for 2007-2013 could present a serious financial blow to the new member states. And yet it was they who were willing to go the extra mile during the summit debate. 

One year after the EU’s latest round of enlargement, the Commission is struggling to meet its recruitment targets from the ten new member states.

The Eurydice network has just published the first study, funded by the European Commission, on the teaching of foreign languages in an enlarged Europe of 30 countries (25 Members of the EU, plus Bulgaria, Romania, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein). It uses the 2001-2002 figures, DREE Revue Elargissement reports.

Halfway through the Lisbon timeframe, the EU-25's overall performance leaves much to be desired. Meanwhile, the new member states do excel in several fields, a new report reveals.

This is the first study which addresses the challenge of alignment of the new member countries with the eEurope 2005 Action Plan. It captures a broad range of factors related to ICT infrastructure and provides a differentiated picture of the development across the current 15 member states, the 10 new member states and the 3 candidate countries.

A survey carried out by Friends of the Earth shows that potential MEPs from the ten new EU Member Countries are likely to back strict environmental legislation in the upcoming Parliament.

The differences in health status and systems between the EU-15 and the new Mediterranean members are small, whereas gaps are wider vis-à-vis the Central and Eastern European entrants, a study finds.

The Brok report on the ten new Member States plus two others on Romania and Bulgaria have all been adopted in plenary by an overwhelming majority.

The EU secured an historical deal on eastward enlargement on 13 December after hard and lengthy bargaining with 10 candidate countries in Copenhagen.

Portugal's Prime Minister António Guterres has offered to resign after his Socialist Party was defeated by Social Democrats at the local elections. President of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio, is expected to accept Mr Guterres' resignation later on Monday.

Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia opened negotiations on regional policy and coordination of structural instruments, and financial control on 6 April 2000.

A study by the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung on the "Eastward enlargement of the European Union: Consequences for prosperity and jobs in Europe" looks at the effects of enlargement on the present European Union's goods, services, capital and jobs markets.

The first group of candidate countries - Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia - are dissatisfied with the slow dynamic of the negotiations which began in March 1998.

At its first meeting under the Portuguese EU Council Presidency on 24 January in Brussels, the EU Council approved the EU positions in view of the opening at Ministerial level of the Intergovernmental Conferences for the opening of accession negotiations with Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Bulgaria on 15 February 2000.