Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155222 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 59.2001
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to draw lessons for the current accession of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A distinction is made between scale, composition and technique effects. Two major conclusions are drawn. First, the impacts of accession differed significantly among accession countries, due to economic, social, political and and geographical factors. Second, the composition effect was relatively unimportant and the technique effect was positive due to the modernisation of production and the implementation of the environmental acquis. A negative scale effect dominated in the areas of consumption and transport. Accession also led to growing disparities at the regional level. At the time of accession, Greece, Portugal and Spain showed similarities with present-day Eastern European countries. Lessons from the southern enlargement are drawn for the current accession, in particular for Poland.
Subjects: 
EU enlargement
environment
JEL: 
F15
F18
Q20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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