Europe After Enlargement

Where is Europe going? Prominent European economists here offer essays on five big challenges to the development of the European Union (EU), namely, the new European Constitution, European finances and the euro, the need to boost economic growth, competition in both new member states and countries further to the east, and the goal of forming a cooperative and productive relationship with countries on the European periphery.

Charles Wyplosz argues that enlargement and deepening are not substitutes but complements. Georges de Ménil worries that the Constitution could lock in Europe with excessive social entitlements. Vito Tanzi questions the Keynesian foundation of the Growth and Stability Pact. Fabrizio Coricelli suggests that the standards of this pact are neither relevant nor sufficient for the new member states. Daniel Gros criticizes the minimal achievements within the Lisbon Agenda. Patrick Lenain records small but positive reforms of European labor markets. Yegor T. Gaidar warns that recovery growth in the East may be temporary. Anders Åslund claims that Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs differ little from U.S. “robber barons.” Susanne Milcher, Ben Slay, and Mark Collins discuss the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy, and Johannes F. Linn and David Tiomkin ponder long-term economic integration in Eurasia.

Anders Åslund is a Senior Fellow and specialist on post-communist economic transformation, especially the Russian and Ukrainian economies, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. From 1994 to 2005, he worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, first as a senior associate and later as Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program. Dr. Åslund is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has also served as an economic adviser to the Russian government from 1991 to 1994, to the Ukrainian government from 1994 to 1997, and to President Askar Akaev of the Kyrgyz Republic from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of six books, including Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (Cambridge University Press, 2002), How Russia Became a Market Economy (1995), Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform (1989), and Private Enterprise in Eastern Europe: The Non-Agricultural Private Sector in Poland and the GDR, 1945–83 (1985). In addition, he has edited eleven books, most recently, Revolution in Orange.

Marek Dąbrowski is a founder and Chairman of the Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw, Poland. He also chairs the Supervisory Board of CASE Ukraine in Kiev and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for the Economy in Transition. Dr. Dąbrowski has actively participated in discussions on economic reforms in Poland since 1978. From September 1989 to September 1990 he was the First Deputy Finance Minister of Poland, and he later served as a Member of Parliament (1991–1993), as Chairman of the Governmental Council of Ownership Changes (1991–1996), and as a member of the Monetary Policy Council of the National Bank of Poland (1998–2004). Dr. Dąbrowski has been involved in policy advice, policy research, and training for the World Bank and UNDP and for sixteen European and Asian nations. He is an author or coauthor of numerous publications on the European Union and European Monetary Union.

• ISBN: 9780521872867
• Publisher: Cambridge
• Author: Edited by Anders Aslund & Marek Dabrowski
• Language: English
• Type: 235mm x 160mm Hardback

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