Progress in the Croatian transition and prospects for Croatia-EU relations
Progress in the Croatian transition and prospects for Croatia-EU relations

Summary/Abstract: Croatia, like other countries in transition, stepped one decade ago into a process without precedent in economic history – the process of transition from non-private ownership (in the Croatian and Slovenian cases not state but social ownership) to a private form. The aim was the creation of the market economy and parliamentary democracy. Its government has introduced policies and undertaken reforms to remove macroeconomic imbalances, to establish a market economy framework and to re-integrate the national economy into the EU and the global economies. The object of our analysis is the current stage of performance in the Croatian transition, both in the economic and the budget sectors, and the prospect of Croatian integration into the EU. Croatian performance in these respects will be evaluated in comparison with other CEECs, especially with the most advanced ones, determined by their inclusion in the first wave enlargement group in Agenda 2000 (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia).

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