countries aspiring for EU and euro area membership. The goal of this paper is to consolidate a variety of theoretical views on … convergence to the EU of the four candidate countries. The interrelation between the three forms of convergence in the different … large differences between the candidate countries in achieving convergence with the EU. Their experiences do not confirm the …

Nominal, real and structural convergence within the EU is a strong topic for the central banks and the European Central … has a strong economic and political implications for the candidate countries for EU membership. Although the theoretical … convergence and its measurement, and on that basis to assess the progress and the current state of economic convergence to the EU …

. Recent trends in these risk premiums in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland are tested by using the GARCH (1 … rate risk premiums in the EU candidate countries as they undergo monetary convergence to the eurozone. The underlying …