The Romanian – Hungarian Border,link or delimitation for the post-adhesion process of Romania and Hungary?

Soproni, Luminita and Horga, Ioan (2009): The Romanian – Hungarian Border,link or delimitation for the post-adhesion process of Romania and Hungary? Published in: Luminita Soproni, Angelo Santagostino, Erno Molnar, Eurolimes, Oradea-Debrecen , Vol. 8, No. Autumn 2009, Europe and its Economic Frontier (2009): pp. 43-56.

Abstract

Today, Romania and Hungary are two countries sharing the same wish: to become active and responsible members of the new great European family. Even if the start was slightly differentiated – Hungary acceded to the EU in 2004 and Romania in 2007 – the post-adhesion evolutions of the two countries are demonstrating the same effort towards the complete integration in the European Union, through the adhesion to the Euro Zone. This paper intends to reveal if the border between the two states plays the role of either connection or demarcation between the economic evolutions of these two member-states of the European Union. On this matter, we will analyze the economic conjuncture, the evolution of the economic indexes and the condition of the different fields of the neighboring economies.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: border, crisis, European Union, member states, economic conjuncture
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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