CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE EU DEPENDENCE-ATTITUDE MATRIX AND COOPERATION INTENSITY WITH CHINA
Our first research objective is to outline the degree of dependence on EU trade and investment of the CEE countries included in the 16+1 platform, as well as their attitudes towards the EU. The resulting EU dependence/attitude matrix helps us to identify four groups of CEE countries according to t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | ron |
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Institute for World Economy
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Revista de Economie Mondială |
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| Online Access: | http://iem.ro/rem/index.php/REM/article/view/590/658 |
| Summary: | Our first research objective is to outline the degree of dependence on EU trade and investment of the
CEE countries included in the 16+1 platform, as well as their attitudes towards the EU. The resulting EU
dependence/attitude matrix helps us to identify four groups of CEE countries according to their lower/higher
dependence on EU trade and investment, alongside their negative/positive attitudes towards the EU. Our
second objective is to classify CEE-16 according to their cooperation intensity with China, as mirrored by
their economic and political ties with China. Our investigation underlines that: (1) higher levels of
cooperation intensity with China are generally correlated with negative attitudes towards the EU,
importance of national interests and need to develop balanced relations with major global actors; (2) lower
levels of cooperation intensity with China correspond to euro-optimist/moderate stances, extreme
dependence on the internal market or political inertia. |
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| ISSN: | 2343-9521 2343-9521 |