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While there is broad agreement that the coming eastward enlargement of the European Union will bring change to both new and present member states, as well as to the Union itself, there is also great uncertainty about the nature of change and how it will affect the involved parties. One of the crucial issues is that of economic and social cohesion of the new EU territory. According to the European Commission, the challenges of cohesion can be expressed in different ways. Enlargement will increase the number of people living in regions with a GDP per head less than 75 per cent of the present EU average from 71 million to 174 million. While GDP per head in lagging regions averaged 66 per cent of the EU average, GDP per head was only around 37 per cent in the lagging regions of applicant states. The Commission concludes that the challenge to cohesion will be twice as widespread and twice as large as today and that at current growth rates, it may take two generations bring new members reasonably on par with the present members (European Commission 2001).
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Hallin, G., Svensson, B. (2002). Who Changes Who? Territorial Integration, Enlargement and EU Structural Policy. In: Hedegaard, L., Lindström, B., Joenniemi, P., Östhol, A., Peschel, K., Stålvant, CE. (eds) The NEBI YEARBOOK 2001/2002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13181-7_2
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