Preparing for Enlargement in the European Union: The Tensions between Economic and Political Integration

In: International political science review: IPSR = Revue internationale de science politique : RISP, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 291-317

Abstract

Since 1989 an extremely rapid process of integration through the market has been taking place between the EU & Central & Eastern Europe. This operates through the three vehicles of integration: trade, foreign direct investment, & outward-processing trade, & has been encouraged by trade concessions & the process of legal approximation. In contrast, many of the political questions relating to enlargement in areas such as the Common Agricultural Policy, the Structural Funds, & Economic & Monetary Union still have not been resolved definitively. There remains a binomial asymmetry between the economic (market) & political aspects of integration. 6 Tables, 53 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications Ltd.]