This study challenges the conventional view that CEE countries are in their attitudes towards the adoption of the euro driven by materialistic concerns. It argues that neither ‘objective' indicators of economic benefits, nor the distributive impacts which the adoption of the euro is likely to...

The purpose of this article is to outline important developments in the European Union decision-making after the eastern enlargement and to draw attention to their likely implications, especially to the threats they may pose to the functioning and democratic quality of the European polity....