Abstract

The caselet highlights the expansion of the European Union (EU). It describes the growing concern among member countries about new countries joining the EU and takes a look at the apprehensions of the central European countries over issues like social values and sovereignty.

Learning Objectives

The case is structured to achieve the following Learning Objectives:

• Apprehensions of the member countries over new countries joining the EU
• How did the central European countries go about stimulating growth
• and Growing concern over the deterioration of relations between central and western European countries

Keywords

European Union (EU), Schengen system, VAT, corporate tax rate