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This is why in most accession countries last year, central banks and governments stepped up co-operation on defining joint positions on adopting the euro.
The accession countries had to decide the optimal timing for eurozone enlargement - a difficult task, because economic theory gives no clear answers in this respect, and because several accession countries are wrestling with fiscal imbalances well above the Maastricht Treaty's ceiling of 3% of GDP.
There may be a certain trade-off between these two aspects, since the EU's accession criteria were defined at a time when the eurozone did not exist and when best practices in exchange rate and monetary policy regimes differed from current ones.
First, most people have learned that no universal solution is optimal for all accession countries.
In this respect, the accession countries can be divided into two broad groups.
There is thus no reason to caution them against fast eurozone accession or to force them to change their exchange rate regimes before entry.
On the other hand, it is clear that the roadmap to the eurozone might be completely different for the larger accession countries with floating exchange rates and inflation-targeting monetary policy regimes.
A second area of consensus has emerged from frequent debates on the potential conflict between nominal and real economic convergence between the EU accession countries and the current member states.
But most accession countries have already achieved substantial progress in lowering inflation and nominal interest rates.
Third, although the Central European countries originally announced different target dates for eurozone accession, their plans have now moved closer together, usually ranging between 2008 and 2010.
This corresponds to the view shared by many accession countries that such a narrow band would increase the risks in managing the run-up to adopting the euro.
The European Commission has declared that Macedonia is ready to start accession talks, while Montenegro, Albania, and Serbia have submitted membership applications.
Other policymakers, however, see an even greater risk that postponing EU accession into the indefinite future could undermine the credibility of the declaration made at Thessaloniki.
The screening process forces applicant countries to take a long, hard look at how close they really are to meeting the accession requirements, thereby introducing a much-needed dose of realism into their debates about what needs to be done in the years ahead.
The competition – and prospect of belonging to a group of frontrunners – would be an added incentive for Balkan leaders to engage with the EU accession process.
For Russia, a new treaty would allow it to live with the hitherto nightmare scenario of Ukrainian accession to NATO; as long as the pact remained in force, Ukraine’s membership would have no military consequences.
By themselves, the labor-market implications of poor countries’ accession to the EU simply are not very dislocating.
He demonstrated pragmatism by not vetoing ongoing EU accession negotiations with Turkey, thus avoiding unnecessary confrontation with Great Britain and Spain, despite maintaining his long-term opposition to full membership for Turkey.
It pursues three goals: accession to the Council of Europe, membership in NATO's Partnership for Peace, and a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union.
The eastern neighbors are not like the central European states that negotiated EU accession in the 1990’s.
A leader of Solidarity, a former political prisoner, and the foreign minister responsible for Poland’s accession to NATO, Geremek had refused to sign yet another declaration that he had not been a communist secret police agent.
It was meant as an alternative to the ever-increasing number of accession rounds, say, involving the countries in the southern Caucasus.
If they comply, however, nothing must postpone accession.
Within the first year of Romania’s accession to the EU on January 1, 2007, for example, roughly a million Romanians migrated to Italy and Spain.
Indeed, in the last two years alone, 1.5 million Poles emigrated, and overall probably more than two million have done so since Poland’s EU accession in 2004.
But the relationship between Turkey and the EU should not be limited to accession talks among leaders, diplomats, and bureaucrats; the process should involve ordinary people on both sides of the discussion.
Polls indicate that more than half of the Turkish population supports EU accession.
A Fair Deal for TurkeyTurkey has been given what looks like an ultimatum from the EU Commission: open your ports for ships from Cyprus within a month, or you may risk a halt to the EU accession talks now underway.
At the same time, the Commission’s latest report on Turkey’s progress toward accession notes that political reforms have slowed down, further calling into question the country’s future EU membership.
While accession countries such as Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have made impressive progress in economic and political transformation during the 1990's, dealing with the plight of the Roma remains one of the most critical issues on their path to EU membership next year and over the next decade.
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