A watershed in efforts to integrate "Europe", the plans to widen the EU will inevitably conflict with forces for deepening integration. Focusing on economic factors, this volume explores the key questions of widening, including why the negotiations are likely to be contentious for all concerned.

A major watershed in efforts to integrate Europe,O the negotiations for adding as many as ten transition economies to the European Union promise to be complex, acrimonious, and protracted. Clarifying why the debate will be so contentious, this timely volume focuses especially on core economic issues. The contributors explore the difficulties facing candidate countries, present members, and outside groups; the uneasy relationship between the EU and its eastern neighbors; and the losses and gains each side can expect over the short and long term as the EU widens to include new members while trying to preserve the integrity of the single market.

Transitions and their impacts on European integration, Jozef M. van Brabant
conditions for EU entry - the TEs, Marie Lavigne
IGC96 -"deepening" versus "widening", Jozef M. van Brabant
exchange-rate regimes and monetary policies for EU candidates, Lucjan T. Orlowski
normal and real convergence - at what speed? Wladimir Andreff
structural convergence - through industrial policy, Hubert Gabrisch and Klaus Werner
enlargement - conflicts and policy options, Jozef M. van Brabant
conclusion - toward membership, Jozef M. Brabant.