The EU candidate and potential candidate countries have made considerable progress in economic transition and …

and Serbia). In 2001 a regular economic fiscal surveillance procedure was established for the candidate countries. It aims …-ordination procedures currently in place in the EU as part of the Economic and Monetary Union. The Pre-Accession Economic Programmes (PEPs …, consistent with their EU membership aspirations. For this reason a similar, though reduced, exercise was started in 2007 with the …