期刊名称：Economic Assessment of the Euro Area / Euroframe
出版年度：2006
卷号：SPR
出版社：The Economic and Social Research Institute
摘要：This paper discusses the main fiscal pressures related to EU accession that might arise on the
road to EMU in the transition economies, which joined the EU in May 2004. More than half
of them run excessive fiscal deficits being partly a legacy of an early transition period, partly
¨C a consequence of additional accession-related costs. The structure of the paper is the
following: the first part discusses the current fiscal situation stressing, among others, the
pressures coming from old-age related expenditures. The second part concentrates on fiscal
pressures that stem directly from the fiscal obligations arising from EU membership and
presents the infrastructure investment needs which are necessary in order to achieve real
convergence with OMS. The last part concludes.
