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What does an enlarged European Union mean for Croatia?
[collection article]
Corporate Editor
Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kroatien
Abstract Croatia missed the first wave of Eastern EU enlargementi, but it is likely to start accession negotiations in 2005. It is gradually aligning its legislation with the EU acquis pursuant to the Interim Agreement. Adjustment costs linked with the integration process coupled with the lack of a firm time... view more
Croatia missed the first wave of Eastern EU enlargementi, but it is likely to start accession negotiations in 2005. It is gradually aligning its legislation with the EU acquis pursuant to the Interim Agreement. Adjustment costs linked with the integration process coupled with the lack of a firm timetable for full EU-integration might give rise to euroscepticism, decrease readiness for reforms and slow them down. Delays in reforms related to transition and integration can endanger
their effectiveness and impede development of the capacity to cope with market forces within the EU. This is the economic membership criterion. Hence, such developments can impede the fulfilment of EU membership criteria and also reduce the potential for exploiting the positive effects of integration.... view less
Keywords
EU; Croatia; post-socialist country; economic reform; EU expansion; criterion; joining the European Union; candidacy
Classification
Economic Policy
Method
descriptive study
Free Keywords
enlargement; European Union; Croatia; candidates; membership criteria
Collection Title
Croatian Accession to the European Union. Vol. 3, Facing the challenges of negotiations
Editor
Ott, Katarina
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
City
Zagreb
Page/Pages
p. 31-60
ISBN
953-6047-58-6
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works