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Article: ENLARGEMENT: NEW MEMBER STATES' INDUSTRIES "FACE BIG CHALLENGES".
- Article from:
- European Report
- Article date:
- April 5, 2003
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The overall tone of the analysis is optimistic - both in terms of achievements and of prospects. In economic terms, the accession of candidate countries will reinforce an integration process that is well under way and that has already brought increasing opportunities for enterprises in everything from technology and financial transfers to the new Member States and new trade and investment opportunities for the existing EU members, it says. But it points clearly to areas where difficulties can be anticipated.
Among the successes already evident, large privatised and foreign-owned corporations in the new Member States do very well in global markets, the Commission ...