Economic Challenges and Cosequences of the EU Enlargement for Trade and Development of Candidate States

In this paper we intended to analyse the effects that the incorporation of the candidate states to the EU will have over their economies. As far as the EU has evolved towards a single market, we studied their foreign trade with the EU member states (intra and inter industrial trade…). We also studied the role that foreign direct investment (FDI) has played in these countries. As a stone yard, we used the evolution of the countries that joined the UE in previous enlargements processes and that, at that moment, had also an unfavourable economic situation.