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What will happen when a further ten countries, mostly from Central and Eastern Europe, join the EU in 2004? Andrew Reeve of Cheadle Hulme School, investigates.
Summary of Key Points
* Ten states, mostly from Central and Eastern Europe, are due to join the EU in 2004.
* The countries concerned are Cyprus, Hungary, Malta, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Slovakia.
* Potential benefits include a greater market, more specialisation through comparative advantage, and greater employment and income.
* Potential disadvantages include the Common Agricultural Policy costs and structural and regional policy costs that will come from admitting largely poorer nations with larger agrarian sectors.
* Free movement of labour from the applicant countries may be limited for a number of years.
PDF format: 4 A4 pages. First published in Economics Today magazine January 2003.
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