Analyse : L'héritage macroéconomique des nouveaux Etats membres d'Europe centrale et orientale

Dans cet article, Tania Sollogoub, Maître de conférence en économie à l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques à Paris (Sciences-Po), explique pourquoi l’héritage économique des nouveaux Etats membres fait que le dernier élargissement a été très différent des précédents.

« The heritage of macro-economics in Central and Eastern Europe », by Tania Sollogoub looks at how influences from the past are likely to affect the future economic development of the eight central and eastern European countries that joined the EU in May 2004. 

Ms. Sollogoub says that the perspective of EU membership acted as « an engine for growth » for some of these countries, in particular in terms of foreign direct investments. These, she argues, have laid the foundations for future growth. 

However, she underlines that the effects of EU membership could already be felt before enlargement in terms of stabilising political and social behaviour or in terms of accelerating the flow of capital . This, she argues, has without doubt given these economies in transition their real chances of success. 

This publication by Tania Sollogoub is the first in a series of four focusing on the eight new member states from Central and Eastern Europe: 1) Macro-economic heritage, 2) Productivity profile and convergence path, 3) Room for manoeuvre in economic policies, and 4) Nature of the European influence before and after enlargement.

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