Does EU Membership Facilitate Convergence? The Experience of the EU s Eastern Enlargement - Volume I
Overall Trends and Country Experiences Editors:
Analyses the ways in which EU membership contributed to the convergence of certain countries
Explores the workings of channels such as trade and labour, investment, financial integration, and laws and institutions
Country case studies include Poland, Hungary, the Baltic States, Bulgaria and Romaniasee more benefits
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This edited volume analyses how EU membership influenced the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. It also explores countries that are candidates for future EU membership. The speed of convergence of significant groups of low- and medium-income countries has never
By Lynn Fries. Originally published at GPE Newdocs
LYNN FRIES: Hello and welcome. I’m Lynn Fries producer of Global Political Economy or GPEnewsdocs. I am delighted to have Michael Hudson joining us today. He will be discussing how under a neoliberal shift from industrial to finance capitalism, today’s most pressing economic conflict is not simply between labor and employers. It is a conflict in which rentier interests have the upper hand over labor, industry and government together. This is the political economy in which the COVID-19 economic shock is playing out with dire consequences.
Michael Hudson is a research professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. A prolific author, Michael Hudson’s latest book is …