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A major watershed in efforts to integrate Europe,O the negotiations for adding as many as ten transition economies to the European Union promise to be complex, acrimonious, and protracted. Clarifying why the debate will be so contentious, this timely volume focuses especially on core economic issues. The contributors explore the difficulties facing candidate countries, present members, and outside groups; the uneasy relationship between the EU and its eastern neighbors; and the losses and gains each side can expect over the short and long term as the EU widens to include new members while trying to preserve the integrity of the single market.

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This important work addresses problems facing the formerly state socialist economies of Eastern Europe as they move toward membership in the European Union and also highlights barriers to achieving an ever closer union of European nations as the EU expands beyond its current membership.--G. T. Potter Choice

This important work addresses problems facing the formerly state socialist economies of Eastern Europe as they move toward membership in the European Union and also highlights barriers to achieving an ever closer union of European nations as the EU expands beyond its current membership. -- G. T. Potter CHOICE This important work addresses the problems facing the formerly state socialist economies of Eastern Europe as they move toward membership in the European Union and also highlights barriers to achieving an ever closer union of European nations as the EU expands beyond its current membership. CHOICE No other book covers the topic so comprehensively and in so unified a fashion. The scholarship is excellent-a significant contribution to the literature. -- Paul Marer, Indiana University

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Jozef M. van Brabant is Principal Economics Affairs Officer, UN Secretariat. He is the author or editor of many books and articles on centrally planned and transition economies.

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