IMPACT OF ACTUAL CRISIS ON EU CONVERGENCE

Estimating a set of concentration indicators for the period of actual crisis (emerged in 2008), we demonstrated a significant impact of it on convergence process in EU. However, the differences in matter of convergence emerge at the level of groups of countries. Thus, while in EU-10 (most recent acceded countries to EU) is manifesting a strong convergence, in EU-15 (old members of EU) a significant trend of divergence was demonstrated.