Kroatiens europäische Integrationsbestrebungen. Wird Kroatien in wenigen Jahren EU-Mitgliedsstaat?
Croatia´s Efforts towards European Integration. Will Croatia Become an EU-Member State in the Next Few Years?

Summary/Abstract: The prospects of the European Integration have become a crucial point of Croatian politics. This is especially true since signing the “Stabilisation and Association Agreement” between the Republic of Croatia and the European Communities and their Member States. EU-membership is the primary goal of the new government of the Republic of Croatia elected in January 2000. The article examines the country’s readiness to achieve membership status within the years to come. On this topic the author interviewed – among others – the Croatian Minister for European Integration, Neven Mimica, who is in charge of coordinating the process of EU rapprochement and the German Ambassador for the Republic of Croatia, Gebhardt Weiss. Besides institutional, democratic and political demands, there is a need to establish a functioning market economy which is competitive with the EU internal market. This aspect is reflected in different negotiation chapters that EU accession countries have to fulfil. The research focuses on the small and medium enterprises as an indicator of the Croatian economy as a whole.

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