After EU enlargement: Development or deterioration

Abstract

In terms of the old communist small countries, globalization was a more substantial problem due to their starting position. While their markets were not even ready for basic rules of capitalism, the concept of being competitive globally was a faraway issue for them. Their unique conditions separated them from rest of the world. Klvacova mentioned these conditions as “ethical values, basic principles in the role of the state in the society and the economy, in mutual relations between citizens and state, in mutual relation between state and the entrepreneurial sphere, in character and structure of laws, in form of their exaction, in the size and structure of sanctions for misdemeanour of single legal norms” (Kirch: 2002, 184). It is obvious that a deep and fundamental change was necessary for the transition economies. However, it was a critical watershed that the question of how this perforce transformation would embody. It could appear spontaneously thanks to the external dynamics, but it was unrealistic to expect that the application process will finish in a short time and there will not be experienced any resist about not to change (Kirch: 2002, 186). Alternatively, countries could adjust their internal institutions as a process of accession by the help of an “external political anchor” (Kirch: 2002, 188). Apart from these economic reasons, joining to EU was also substantial for Central and East Europe Countries (CEECs) due to the political problems and for their security. Although the. © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2019 All rights reserved.