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N°192 |
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| July-August 2000 |
| Eastward Enlargement of
the European Union : Can Failure Be Avoided |
| Jérôme Sgard |
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| The start of membership negotiations with
five new East European countries is a political gesture made by the European Union.
But a number of the countries concerned have not completed their transition to
a market economy successfully, or are incapable of respecting the rules of the
Single Market. How is it possible to avoid negotiations running into the ground,
or, alternatively, to avoid accession occurring before these problems have been
solved? European financial aid alone is not enough to help support the renewal
of transition. The Union will have to participate in reinforcing the competencies
and credibility of national institutions, whose weakness has slowed-down or even
blocked reform in the 1990s. |
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