Eastern Europeans reflect on EU entry

Headline: Eastern Europeans reflect on EU entrySource: EuromoneyDate: January 2002Author: Chris Shevlin Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are among 10 states, mostly central and eastern European, that Brussels is vowing to admit as soon as 2004. Only Bulgaria and Romania would be kept waiting. But this idea doesn’t please some existing EU members – […]

Headline: Eastern Europeans reflect on EU entry
Source: Euromoney
Date: January 2002
Author: Chris Shevlin

Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are among 10 states, mostly central and eastern European, that Brussels is vowing to admit as soon as 2004. Only Bulgaria and Romania would be kept waiting. But this idea doesn’t please some existing EU members – and a radical view is emerging that what matters is market reform, not EU membership.

       
Polish farmers: little solidarity from the French,
who absorb 22% of
Common Agricultural Policy funds

Enlargement of the European Union, now that it is imminent, is proving divisive.






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