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Abstract
In 2004 and 2007 12 new member states (NMS) joined the European Union, which has offered several possibilities and challenges to the newcomers. The aim of this article is to assess the impact of EU accession on new member states' agriculture as well as to identify those factors lying behind different country performance. Results suggest that EU accession has had a significant impact on NMS agriculture, although member states capitalised their opportunities in different ways, due to initial conditions and pre- and post-accession policies.
Acknowledgement
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, No. 83119, ‘Changes and determinants of Central and Eastern European agricultural trade’.
Notes
1. Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovania joined in 2004, while Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007. However, Cyprus and Malta are excluded from the analysis as the article deals with the post-communist NMS only.