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POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MOTIVES FOR JOINING EU: CASE STUDY OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

The goal of this paper is to show political and economic motives of countries that want to join EU. In the ever changing environment states tend to join Regional economic integrations (REI) in order to make their economy stronger by attracting more foreign direct investments from economically stronger members of REI or from other countries which want to have access to enlarged market. The political motives for joining REI aren`t to be neglected since countries in REI tend to get more security. We will try to explain these motives by using the example of the 7 new EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe which joined EU in 2004 namely: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary. Each of them had their own specific reasons for joining EU but for all of these countries the main political motif for joining EU was to escape from the potential economic and political domination by Russia. Today some of these countries wish to have closer ties with Russia but because of their membership in EU they have greater leverage in economic relations with Russia and any other country outside the EU.

EU, politics, economy, security

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