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example, receives 23 percent of all funds. Not surpris-

mic Freedom of the World: 2003 Annual Report

(Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2003), p. 11.

ingly, the Spanish put up a mighty fight to keep their

share of the transfers and even threatened to veto the

24. Quoted in Aslund, p. 143.

EU enlargement as a whole. In addition, the funds sti-

fle economic reform throughout the EU. As

25. Ibid., p. 117.

Szamuely and Jamieson, scholars from the Centre for

Research into Post-Communist Economies, observe,

26. Leszek Balzerowicz, Post-Communist Transition: Some

"Cohesion Fund disbursements can discourage gov-

Lessons (London: IEA, 2001), pp. 35­36.

ernment from measures that would otherwise

encourage a switch from consumption to investment,

27. Aslund, p. 119.

while soft loans to redundant steelworkers could slow

necessary re-adjustments and re-training." Szamuely

28. Balzerowicz, p. 37.

and Jamieson, pp. 51, 75. See also "Enlargement

Dispute Solved."

29. Aslund, p. 120.

11.  EU Commission, "Candidate Countries

30. Ibid., p. 115.

Eurobarometer 2002: First Results," http:// europa

.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/archives/cceb/2002/c

31. World Bank, "World Development Indicators

ceb_2002_highlights_en.pdf.

2002," www.worldbank.org.

12. "Czech Republic: New President Expected to

32.  European Bank for Reconstruction and

Speak Loudly on Foreign Policy," Radio Free

Development, "2002 Transition Report," www.

Europe, March 7, 2003, www.rferl.org/nca/fea

ebrd.com/country/index.htm.

tures/2003/03/07032003174045.asp.

33. Aslund, p. 445.

13.  "EEA Rules Could Cost Up to 30,000

Norwegian Jobs," EUobserver, February 21, 2003,

34. Richard Corbett, "A Lot Done, a Lot More to

www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=9456.

Do--Labour and European Social Legislation,"

Fabian Society, October 8, 2002, www.fabian-soci

14. Ibid.

ety.org.uk/documents/ViewADocument.asp?ID=

63&CatID=52.

15. "EU Legislation Unnecessarily Complex," EU-

observer, September 13, 2002, www.euobserer.

35. See directives 96/34/EC and 2001/25/EC.

com/index.phtml?aid=7541. See also "Enlargement

Referenda--When--Where--Yes-or-No," EUobserver,

36. See directives 2002/15/EC and 2000/79/EC.

December 18, 2002, www.euobserver.com/index.

phtml? aid=8822.

37. Employees can choose to work more if they

want to.

16. "UK Chancellor to Demand More Flexibility,"

EUobserver, March 10, 2003, www.euobserver.

38. See directive 93/104/EC.

com/index.phtml?aid=10481.

39. See directive 2002/44/EC.

17. Ibid.

40. See directive 2002/44/EC.

18. "Klaus: Vstup Do EU Moc Nezmeni," Lidove

Noviny, November 12, 2002, www.lidovky.cz/

41. World Bank, "Hungary on the Road to the

clanekzahranicni.asp?r=zahranicni&c=A021112_

European Union," 1999, pp. 141­43, www.wds.

143736_zahranicni_lvv.

worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WD

SP/IB/2000/03/21/000094946_0002250530432

19. Directorate General for Economic and Financial

2/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf.

Affairs of the EU, "The Economic Impact of

Enlargement," Enlargement Papers, no. 4, June 2001.

42. EU Commission, "Employment and Social

Policy," http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargment/

20.  Anders Aslund, Building Capitalism: The

negotiations/chapters/chap13/index.htm.

Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2002).

43. EU Commission, "Protocol on Social Policy,"

http://europa.eu.int/abc/obj/treaties/en/entr8i.htm.

21. Ibid.

44. See directive 89/391/EEC.

22. Ibid., p.110.

45. See directive 2002/44/EC.

23. James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, Econo-

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