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Over the last few years, the accession of new candidates to the European Union has posed an additional difficulty for the process of convergence towards a single European financial system. The official accession candidates, most of them with underdeveloped financial systems, have made some reforms in order to become more market orientated.
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Ruza, C., de Juan, R., de la Cuesta González, M. (2010). A New Appraisal of the Structure of European Banking Systems. In: Fiordelisi, F., Molyneux, P., Previati, D. (eds) New Issues in Financial Institutions Management. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299153_3
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