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As Bulgaria is heading to a single party minority government in July 2009, EuPI has prepared a fact sheet with the longevity of governments in CEE prior and after accession. You can access the fact sheet  "Cabinets in New EU Member States: Duration, lifespan and the date of accession as a turning point"here .
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1 - 31 August 2010
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A new article published by the European Central Bank (ECB) examines “The impact of the financial crisis on the Central and Eastern European Countries” and elicit recommendations for the policies they should pursue.
The EC has released a new report dated March 17, 2010, which assesses the stability and convergence programs of fourteen EU Member States, saying among all that  "[R}eflecting the working of automatic stabilisers and discretionary stimulus measures ... to cope with the exceptional economic circumstances, a large majority of Member States is currently subject to the excessive deficit procedure..." Click here to continue reading..
The Vagabond has featured the EuPI conference New Reform Agenda of the New EU Member States in its new issue (Issue 38, November 2009). The article continues by saying “Perhaps the new EU member states can prove the aptness of the cliché that a crisis is just an opportunity click here to continue reading
Article in the EUOBSERVER quotes George Soros statement on the New Member States of the EU, saying "the European Union must do more to help its struggling eastern region, including a fast-tracking of member state applications to join the euro currency."



In an interview with EUobserver on Thursday (12 November), he also called
on the EU to develop a dedicated strategy to alleviate the difficulties
faced by the region's Roma population.
The World Bank has released a new report on eve of 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall, focused on Emerging Europe and Central Asia. The report says structural reforms are now necessary to protect hard-won gains.
EurActiv has featured the "The Unfinished Business of the Fifth Enlargement Countries" report by Assya Kavrakova, Program Director of the European Policies and Civic Participation Program of OSI-Sofia and EuPI.
As Dominique de Villepin, head of an international advisory panel to Prime Minister Stanishev, will present a report “Bulgaria in the EU”, you can read EuPI/OSI-Sofia’s report “BULGARIA: The EU New Member States as Agenda Setters in the Enlarged European Union” in English here and a summary in Bulgarian here.
An op-ed by Marin Lessenski was published in the European Voice on 30 April 2009, highlighting the findings of the project "The EU New Member States as Agenda Setters in the Enlarged European Union".You can accesss the article  "Impressionists as dentists:What would EU policy look like if its newer members were policy-drivers?" here.

The report has also been featured in the EU Observer, you can find the article "EU still 'digesting' 2004 enlargement five years on" here.
Michael Emerson (CEPS), discusses in a recent commentary the implications and responses to the economic crisis in Eastern Europe. He makes a strong case, inter alia, for quick opening of the Eurozone for the new member states as an adequate measure to curb the crisis.
Publications
23.07.2009

“The Unfinished Business of the Fifth Enlargement Countries” analyzes the problems faced by the ten new member states after their accession to the EU in eleven policy areas including political development, the economy, the healthcare system and education.
EuPI has released a series of reports within the project "The EU New Member States as Agenda Setters in the Enlarged European Union", with the "Not Your Grandfather’s Eastern Bloc" comparative policy report.
EuPI has contributed to a major report on EU-Russia relations by ECFR's Mark Leonard and Nicu Popescu

2008 European Policies Initiative
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