Ocena sytuacji gospodarczej Unii Europejskiej w kontekście integracji nowych krajów członkowskich

Abstract

Integration of European countries has begun since, in 1949, Council of Europe was brought to life, next, there was brought into existence the European Coal and Steel Community which was to supervise the extraction industry and steel industry of Western Europe. During following years there was set up European Community of Atomic Power and European Community which essential purpose was to tighten cooperation among member countries. In 1992 there was signed Maastricht Treaty called also Treaty of European Union which started functioning on November Iм 1993 and appeared to be crucial document to unify Europe. The target of this article is to demonstrate changes in commercial condition of European Union related to new member countries that joined the Union from 1992 - 2007. Moreover there will be screened position of this international organization in the world economy. To achieve this goal there will be made analysis of basic macro-economy factors and their fluctuations during the period of years, starting from the year of European Union setting up.