K niektorým aspektom rozširovania Európskej únie a postavenie SR
Some Aspects of the Enlargement of the European Union and the Position of the Slovak Republic

Author(s): Ľudmila Lipková
Subject(s): Politics, Labor relations, Economic policy, International relations/trade, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Slovakia; 2000; foreign policy; EU; EU enlargement; economy; labour relations;
Summary/Abstract: The incorporation of the economy of Slovakia into the economic integration within the European Union is the only possible way how to solve present economic problems. Even at the beginning of the 21st century it did not emancipate from the big recession, which had hit the Slovak economy after the transformation process in the states of Central and Eastern Europe. Nowadays individual candidate states for the membership in the European Union reach a different degree of deficiencies comparing to the European Union average. At the beginning of the 21st century Slovenia is the nearest to the average of the economic level of the European Union reaching 71.2 % of the average, it is followed by the Czech Republic (68.8 %), Hungary (68.4 %A), Estonia (65.2 %), Poland (61 %), Slovakia (58.8 %), Latvia (56.1 %), Bulgaria (54.6 %), Lithuania (52.2 %) and Romania (47.1 %).

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