(EU-newbies III; 09-03; p.4)

Concluding remarks

With this article now nine of the ten invited accession candidates have been outlined in their economic structures (former articles are in the 06-03 and 07-03 issues).
Cyprus is the one country dismissed: as long as there is no solution for the divided island, it cannot become an EU-member as one state.

The presented sketch cannot and should not be anything but an approximation as has been mentioned earlier; the characteristic lines serve the sole purpose to enable a fundamental classification. Without consideration is necessarily left the process that lead to the sketches: e.g. there is a difference in seeing the relatively high orientation towards services in Eastern Europe as negative of a vanished industry or as an image of a trade nation.

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