Does EU membership facilitate convergence Michael Landesmann István P. Szekely (editors) ; Volume 1: Overall trends and country experiences 1. Introduction 2. Convergence of the EU member states in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe (EU11): a framework for convergence inside a close regional cooperation 3. Towards a new growth model in CESEE: three challenges ahead 4. Regional dynamics in EU11 5. How the European Union made Poland European Again 6. Transformation of the financing and foreign trade model of the Hungarian economy after EU accession 7. Macroeconomic trends in the Baltic States before and after accession to the EU 8. Bulgaria and Romania: The Latecomers to the Eastern Enlargement 9. Convergence of non EU countries in the CESEE region. This edited volume analyses how EU membership influenced the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe. It also explores countries that are candidates for future EU membership. The speed of convergence of significant groups of low and medium income countries has never been as fast globally as it is today. Contributions by lead researchers of the area explore whether these countries are converging faster than their fundamentals and global trends would suggest because of EU membership with its much tighter institutional and political anchorage.