Baltic States Negotiating the EU Entry: Process, Patterns And Results
Baltic States Negotiating the EU Entry: Process, Patterns And Results

Summary/Abstract: The December 13, 2002 date will remain as one of the key dates in the history of the European Union (EU). This was the day when the EU completed accession negotiations with most candidate Central and Eastern European countries (except Bulgaria and Rumania), Cyprus and Malta. The Copenhagen Summit of December 2002 marked the end of an important stage in the process of European integration that had been gradually erasing the former Cold war division of Europe. It paved the way to creating an EU of 25 member states with the population of about 450 million and an economy of above $9.3 trillion. The completion of EU accession negotiations for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania has an additional political significance for the Baltic region

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