How Much Economic Integration is There in the Extended EU Family?

Year
2010
Type(s)
Author(s)
Naotaka Sugawara, and Juan Zalduendo
Source
ECAnomics Note 10/1, World Bank, Washington, DC. October 2010

This note assesses the degree of economic integration within the extended EU family. As would be expected, it finds that the new EU member states have integrated more than candidate and EU neighborhood countries. But it also finds that within each of these three groups the progress is quite varied. For example, the least integrated countries in the EU10 seem to be also the ones that experienced high growth in their non-tradable sector and a reversal in integration in the pre-crisis period. Also, among the EU neighborhood, countries such as Ukraine are still far away from integrating to the EU and are even less integrated than countries such as Morocco.