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The new EU member candidates, as well as those who have had this status for a decade, present the Union with an opportunity to decide what kind of club it should be.
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Jiffer Bourguignon, ZBW — Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Hamburg, Germany.
Maria Demertzis, Bruegel, Brussels, Belgium.
Ekaterina Sprenger, ZBW — Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Hamburg; and University of Hamburg, Germany.
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