期刊名称：Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie
印刷版ISSN：1844-7007
出版年度：2007
卷号：01
出版社：Academica Brâncuşi
摘要：This paper develops the increasing reluctance of western Europeans to accept quick admissions into the EU, or a defined calendar, is a reflection of the growing discrepancy between the rhetoric of Enlargement and what happens in reality, under the spell of pragmatic considerations. For policy-makers calculate costs and benefits, and they need hard data to this end; it goes without saying that they have a very difficult time in incorporating the soft variables of Enlargement, such as the costs of non-enlargement. Therefore, the conclusions and decisions they reach are skewed by leaving aside what is not clear, or hard to estimate, like political or geopolitical consequences of integration, which, over the longer term do have an economic impact. To all this conundrum one has to add the Balkans quagmire, which mirrors ghosts of the past and the present, and, also, the inability of Europeans to identify a way out at the very moment of trying to achieve a united Europe.
