Conclusions

Abstract

The starting point for our study was to examine two important processes in the world political economy. First, the conceptual and empirical realization that the MNE is an important political entity in the policy-making processes of states and international organizations. Second, the process of EU enlargement to include countries from ECE would entail one of the greatest projects in regulatory convergence; a process in which the transforming political economies of the ECE region would have to revolutionize their legal structure and substance and overhaul their system of public administration to fall in line with the acquis.