Based on the review of literature and our own conceptual considerations, we show that absorption problems regarding the EU Structural Funds may be important. Our brief covering of some general macroeconomic aspects of absorption problems brings us closer to the central topic of our paper,...

The main objective of the paper is to assess macroeconomic and financial absorption capacity of the EU candidate country Turkey for the use of preaccession funds in the period before the country will join the European Union as well as for the use of structural action funds in the period...