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Klappentext This book offers the first in-depth and systematic analysis of the challenges of the Euro Area and the eastward enlargement of the European Union. Combing country and sectoral case studies with a thematic treatment, it focuses in particular on how the prolonged process of accession to the Euro Area is affecting domestic economic policies in the accession states of east central Europe. Zusammenfassung The creation of the Euro Area and the eastward enlargement of the EU are two of the greatest policy projects in the history of European integration, presenting major challenges. This is the first in-depth and systematic analysis of these challenges, and their effects on the domestic economic policies of accession states. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Kenneth Dyson: Euro Entry as Defining and Negotiating Fit: Conditionality, Contagion and Domestic Politics 2: Jim Rollo: EMU and the New Member States: Strategic Choices in the Context of Global Norms 3: Iain Begg: Real Convergence and EMU Enlargement: The Time Dimension of Fit with the Euro Area 4: Erik Jones: Economic Adjustment and the Euro in the New Member States: The Structural Dimension of Fit 5: Ingo Linsenmann and Wolfgang Wessels: Optimal Economic Governance in an Enlarged European Union: Scenarios and Options 6: Magnus Feldmann: The Baltic States: Using Pace-Setting on EMU Accession to Consolidate Domestic Stability Culture 7: Vesselin Dimitrov: From Laggard to Pace-Setter: Bulgaria's Road to EMU 8: Frank Bönker: From Pace-Setter to Laggard: The Political Economy of Negotiating Fit in the Czech Republic 9: Bela Greskovits: The First Shall Be the Last? Hungary's Road to EMU 10: Radoslaw Zubeck: Poland: Unbalanced Domestic Leadership in Negotiating Fit 11: Dimitris Papadimitriou: Persistent Laggard: Romania as Eastern Europe's Sisyphus 12: Piroska Nagy: Financial Market Governance: Evolution and Convergence 13: Vesselin Dimitrov: EMU and Fiscal Policy 14: Martin Rhodes and Maarten Keune: EMU and Welfare State Adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe 15: Kenneth Dyson: Domestic Transformation, Strategic Options and 'Soft' Power in Euro Area Accession ...
