Progress Towards Meeting The Economic Criteria For Accession PDF Download

In this Occasional Paper the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs brings together into a single document the economic chapters of the 2013 European Commission's Progress Reports, i.e. the Staff Working Documents for each candidate country and potential candidate for EU accession. The Commission prepared reports for the five candidate countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey as well as for the three potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. The European Commission adopted the Progress Reports on 16 October 2013. This introduction explains the methodology underlying these Reports that the Commission has been following since 1997 in order to carry out these assessments. The purpose of this Occasional Paper is to facilitate the work of those scholars, researchers and analysts of the enlargement process, who are mainly interested in the economic aspects. As such, it represents only a part of the overall progress made by the candidate countries and the potential candidates towards meeting the accession criteria. A proper full-fledged assessment of progress made under all examined aspects can be found in the 2013 Progress Reports.