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This chapter gives an overview of the contents of the book and its structure. It introduces the puzzle of absorption problems in Central and Eastern Europe, discusses potential explanations for these problems, and then highlights the approach of analysis. After briefly introducing the main themes of party politicization and patronage, pre-accession reforms, and financial and economic crisis, it gives a brief summary of the framework for analysis and of the following chapters.

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    CEE is usually used referring to Hungary , Poland, Slovakia , Slovenia , and the Czech Republic , but is here also set to comprise the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia , Lithuania) and the Southeast European or ‘Balkan’ states (Romania and Bulgaria), thus all post-communist EU member states of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements (Lewis 2002: 4).

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Hagemann, C. (2019). EU Funds in the New Member States. In: EU Funds in the New Member States. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02092-7_1

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