Favourable and unfavourable aspects in the process of small enterprise establishment in the Czech Republic by R. Werner, R. Zuzák

“…At the same time, however, the member states are concerned that following the EU enlargement strong migration flows on the part of new members are likely to occur. …”
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Spain Seen from Europe. Perceptions and Relations (1982-2004) by Marco Mugnaini

“…In the period examined here, the international system was characterized by great changes, passing from the “second cold war” of the eighties to the new dynamics of the post-cold war of the nineties and then of 2001-2003; changes that involved Europe in general (transition from the EEC to the EU, enlargement policies, Euro-Med project, etc.) and Spain in particular. …”
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Economic relations between Latin America and the European Union by José Antonio Ocampo, María Ángela Parra

“…The authors, in their analysis, also focus on the possible consequences for Latin America of future EU enlargement toward the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.…”
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European Banking System - Before and After Brexit - by Sbârcea Loana, Bătuşaru Cristina

“…The history of the last 15 years has been marked by many events at European level, some which led to the last wave of EU enlargement in 2013, with the accession of Croatia, others that led European authorities to take radical action in order to overcome the crisis of 2007-2008, and recently the pandemic crisis of 2020, and the others that marked the first contraction of the European Union since its establishment, together with the decision of Great Britain to no longer be part of the European Union, a phenomenon known as Brexit. …”
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Regional disparities and convergences in the European Union by Petr Blížkovský

“…The study analyses the convergence within the time span where there was substantial EU enlargement with a disparity effect on the whole EU.The study concludes that the level of disparities among the EU regions is relatively low. …”
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Impaling Dracula: how EU accession empowered civil society in Romania by Parau, C

“…This article adopts a 'bottom-up' design and the process-tracing method to examine the influence of the EU enlargement context over the political power of the new social movements in Romania between 2000 and 2004 when the EU acquis was being negotiated. …”

Towards a new politics of migration by Anderson, B

“…It argues that in the UK public debates about immigration changed with EU Enlargement in 2004, when the emphasis shifted from concerns about asylum to concerns about EU mobility. …”

The effects of immigration on NHS waiting times by Giuntella, O, Nicodemo, C, Vargas-Silva, C

“…The increase in average waiting times in more deprived areas is concentrated in the years immediately following the 2004 EU enlargement and disappears in the medium term (e.g., 3 to 4 years).…”

Living the Perpetual Border: 'Bordering practices in the lives of Russian-speaking women engaged in commercial sex in Finland' by Anastasia Diatlova, Lena Näre

“…As the external borders between Finland and its neighbouring countries have become more permeable for some migrants after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the EU enlargement, the internal borders have become more ubiquitous and enforced by various kinds of bordering practices. …”
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The Economics of the Name Change: Long-term Adjustments towards EU/NATO or Short-term Resolution of Political Uncertainty? by Bojan Srbinoski, Klime Poposki, Ksenija Dencic-Mihajlov, Milica Pavlovic

“…We integrate the knowledge from the literature which explores stock market reactions to EU enlargement/exit and political elections and provide contributions for researchers and policymakers.…”
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CONNECTING THE ENLARGEMENT PROCESS WITH THE EUROPEANIZATION THEORY (THE CASE OF TURKEY) by Teodor Lucian Moga

“…The aim of this paper is to assess the effects of the Europeanization process on the countries subject to EU enlargement strategy, with a special focus on Turkey, particularly since the country received the EU candidate status in 1999. …”
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THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE BLACK SEA AND THE DANUBE MOUTHS FOR THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AT THE BEGINNING OF 21st CENTURY by Ion-Marius NICOLAE

“…NATO enlargements (1999, 2004, 2008) and the EU enlargement (2001 and 2007) as well as these organizations’ global aspirations, stated or implied, have been conferring the Black Sea a special statue in the organic equation of the new global order resettlement. …”
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Territorial Disputes in the Post - Yugoslav Space: Nation-Building Between Identity Politics and International Law by Thomas Bickl

“…In the context of EU enlargement, ‎the level of power (a)symmetry between actors also plays a role. ‎…”
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The 2011 Census in Croatia- A (partial) role model for the Western Balkans? by Anna-Lena Hoh

“…Within the framework of EU enlargement, the population and housing census is a pre-condition for EU membership. …”
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The determinants of growing agri-food export: The case of CEE countries by Balaban Suzana, Joksimović Marijana, Stoiljković Bojan

“…The obtained results show that the trade liberalisation increases the agri-food exports, while the EU enlargement indirectly affects the agri-food exports which is an important statement for policy-makers.…”
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Terms of Trade and Efficiency of External Transactions in Romania by Florentina Viorica Gheorghe, Artur-Emilian Simion, Gheorghe Zaman

“…Through the analytical approach, starting from aggregate evolution to the detailed level of products, we attempted to capture the impact of the EU enlargement and the global financial crisis on the efficiency of international trade in Romania during 2006-2016. …”
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Serbia's EU membership, the corner stone of Western Balkans, into question by Celso CANCELA, Paula LAMOSO

“…Bearing in mind the Serbia’s commitment to EU membership, our main purpose throughout this piece is to carefully look at Serbia in order to assess the options and challenges that it has to be an EU member state; particularly after the EU Commission reformed the EU Enlargement Process to be more political. Two major obstacles that Serbia faces in its accession process to the EU are highlighted: a weak democracy and the lack of rule of law. …”
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Regional Transformation as Reterritorialisation: Examining the Distorted Image of EU-ropeanisation by Tiffany G. Williams

“…Further policy integration and future EU enlargement remain strong possibilities, as does the risk of basing the next generation of policy mechanisms on a distorted image of the EU and its capacity to transform. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: Tim Haughton (editor), Party politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Does EU membership matter?, by Danica FINK-HAFNER

“…Although there has been some research in older EU member states into the impact of European integration processes on national party politics and Western scholars (particularly Robert Ladrech and Peter Mair) have developed theoretical frameworks for such research, this field is still under-researched. The 2004 EU enlargement has brought about a new wave of such research. …”
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Agro-food exports variety from the Central and Eastern European countries by Štefan Bojnec, Imre Fertő

“…The panel regression models explain the agro-food exports by its previous year, income in the importing EU countries, and measure of agro-food export product variety, while the real exchange rate appreciation of the CEEC currencies has negatively influenced agro-food exports. The EU enlargement with the reduction in agricultural protection and the borderless single market has induced agro-food export increases in primary agricultural produce and intermediate food-processed products, but less in higher value-added food-processed differentiated products. …”
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