Suchergebnisse

The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants in the EU-15, and has especially brought along big challenges and important opportunities both for the new countries and for the ""Old Europe"". This is the main idea of the volume which is divided into three sections. The first one analyses the effects of the enlargement on the functioning of community institutions, on the relations system with the other Eastern European countries and finally on the regional and global economic dynamics; the second section analyses thoroughly the role of the monetary politics of the European Central Bank and of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the third section deals with the role played by the entrepreneurial class for the success of the transition process of the Eastern European economies.