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Menu :: Introduction ::   France ::   Britain ::   Germany ::   Italy ::   Scandinavia ::   Russia :: History :: Economics :: Law :: Enlargement :: CEE :: Security :: Counterterrorism :: Contributors :: Contact Us	The New Central and Eastern European Member States in 2004 Author: Graham Bowley EU WEBSITES ´Understanding enlargement´ According to the European Commission enlargement is ´one of the EU’s most powerful policy tools´. This site explains the Commission´s decisions made in the process of enlarging the Union EU Accession Treaty 2003 The agreement between the member states of the European Union and the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia. It was signed in Athens on 16 April 2003 and entered into force 1 March 2004 EU Accession Treaty 2005 The agreement between the member states of European Union and Bulgaria and Romania which entered into force on 1 January 2007. The Treaty arranged accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU European Parliament on Enlargement Position papers and documents on EU enlargement provided by the European Parliament The Copenhagen Criteria The Copenhagen criteria, the rules that define whether a country is eligible to join the European Union The PHARE Program The contents of the PHARE Program. This programme of community aid to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe was the main financial instrument of the pre-accession strategy for the Central and Eastern European countries which had applied for membership of the European Union The Europe Agreements Information about the legal framework of relations between the European Union and the Central and Eastern European countries EUR-Lex Portal to all European Union legislation EU Easy Reading Corner A booklet provided by the EU about enlargement COUNTRY PROFILES global information about Cyprus Country profile of Cyprus prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) global information about Czech Republic Country profile of the Czech republic prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) Guardian unlimited special report Guardian unlimited´s special report on the Czech Republic joining the EU (May 2004) global information about Estonia Country profile of Estonia prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) global information about Hungary Country profile of Hungary prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) Guardian unlimited special report Guardian unlimited´s special report on Hungary joining the EU (May 2004) global information about Latvia Country profile of Latvia prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) Guardian unlimited special report Guardian unlimited´s special report on Latvia joining the EU (May 2004) global information about Lithuania Country profile of Lithuania prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) Guardian unlimited special report Guardian unlimited´s special report on Lithuania joining the EU (May 2004) global information about Malta Country profile of Malta prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) global information about Poland Country profile of Poland prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) Guardian unlimited special report Guardian unlimited´s special report on Poland joining the EU (May 2004) global information about Slovakia Country profile of Slovakia prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) global information about Slovenia Country profile of Slovenia prepared by the EP Directorate-General for Research (April 2003) Guardian unlimited special report Guardian unlimited´s special report on Slovenia joining the EU (May 2004) OTHER LINKS General resources on CEEC This site is maintained by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), based in the UK. This page includes links to sites with either a general or a specialist interest in the entire region, rather than a single country Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe The University of Essex, UK, maintains this site, aimed at explaining the role of electoral systems in the democratization of post-Communist Europe. For each country it provides a wealth of detailed information and statistics on elections from the early 1990s to the present, under the following categories: legislation; election results; constituency data; and candidate data Southeast European Politics Online An online journal from Budapest, with archives going back to the first issue - October, 2000 East European Constitutional Review This site of the New York University School of Law dispays its journal ´East European Constitutional Review´which contains dozens of articles pertaining to East European countries. Archives begin with Spring/Summer 1997 European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies This site contains more than 50,000 bibliographic citations to scholarly articles and books relating to Eastern Europe which were published in West European countries. There are two databases: the first covers materials published 1991-2000; the second covers works published 2001 to present Census in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union This annotated collection of links describes the types of materials currently available and gives the census date for each country. Web sites listed are that of the official statistical or census agency of each country; if no census materials appear on these pages, other authoritative web sites are offered Central and Eastern European Online Library C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 280 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics

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