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“Reduce expenditure, invest in people and adopt a careful fiscal policy, says the New Reform Agenda of the New EU Member States International Conference in Sofia”
The Vagabond magazine 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. All they have to do is act quickly and sensibly. The New Reform Agenda of the New EU Member States International Conference focused on the risks they are facing and what the best model for action might be.
The event, organised by the European Policy Initiative, a programme of the Open Society Institute think tank, and the World Bank in Sofia, brought together delegates from all over Europe, including World Bank experts and three Bulgarian ministers.”
You can read the full article in the Vagabond in English here.
More information and materials from the conference you can find here.
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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..
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.
As Bulgaria is heading to a single party minority government in July 2009, EuPI has prepared a fact sheet with the longevity of governments, including type of govenment, in the new EU member states in CEE prior and after accession.
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.
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. | |
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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 | |
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