Economic Review, Vol. 52 No. 7-8, 2001.
Original scientific paper
ECONOMIC BENEFITS FROM COOPERATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Ana Vizjak
Abstract
Since getting its independence the Republic of Croatia has been trying to approach economically and politically to European integrations, especially to the European Union as the most significant European economic integration. Negotiations of Croatian authorities with EU started in 1995, when there were held first meetings of professional bodies of Croatia and Community. Technical negotiations within Agreement on Trade and Cooperation included three groups of problems, the solution of which should bring three important agreements: Agreement on Trade and Cooperation which had to be associated by Financial protocol, Agreement on Traffic and Agreementon Coal and Steel. Due to known political happenings negotiations were postponed all to political change in Croatia and the authority of democratic option. Afterwards, changes have been happening almost daily and Croatia hurriedly realizes what was omitted. As it became the member of European Council, WTO, CEFTA and Stability Pact, Croatia hurriedly prepares for accession to Agreement on Uniting. Realization of Agreement on Uniting in Croatia would change many economic parameters, from tariffs annulment, to balance of payments items. The answer to these questions is given by analyses of static and dynamic effects to accession to the European Union.The goal of Croatian economic policy is accession to the European Union which should be confirmed by economic analysis about its usefulness and efficiency, what this scientific work tries to present.
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28762
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Publication date:
15.8.2001.
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