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Conference on the 15th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Looking back, looking forward

8 April 2019 (Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna, Austria)
9 April 2019 (Sheraton Hotel, Bratislava, Slovakia)

Conference 15th Anniversary 2004 EU Enlargement

This event, co-organised by the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC) -the European Commission’s in-house think tank, operating directly under the authority of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker- and the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), marks the15th anniversary of the May 2004 first wave of EU enlargement in which eventually 11 Baltics, Central and South Eastern European countries joined the EU. It aims to bring together prominent political figures, policy makers and experts from the EU Member States, International and European institutions, the private sector and academia, to identify and reflect on the experiences and the impacts of this EU enlargement episode. The event will focus on the identification and discussion of experiences from which wider lessons can be learnt, using concrete country cases. It will consider the channels through which EU membership has helped to speed up convergence, via analysis of the role e.g trade, investment, financial integration and institutional channels have played.

Conference materials

Conference materials

Here you can find the presentations used by our panellists during the conference.

Media

Media

Here you can find pictures and videos taken during the conference.

YP – the Young Participants Programme

YP – the Young Participants Programme

A bottom-up initiative to ensure that in the audience of the conference the share of young people will match their share in society.

Faces of Convergence

Faces of Convergence

An e-book with personal views of people who made major contribution to the convergence process in Baltics, Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Edited Volume

Edited Volume

An edited volume published by an academic publisher will collect the research papers that underpin this project.

Programme of Day 1, Vienna

Programme of Day 1, Vienna

The conference will focus on the main achievements of the EU enlargement and the impact of EU membership on reforms...

Programme of Day 2, Bratislava

Programme of Day 2, Bratislava

The focus will be on investment into physical and human capital and the future of convergence and enlargement.

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