중동부유럽

Abstract

The report focuses on the following countries of Central Europe and the Baltics: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. These countries are grouped together as they are aging differently to the older EU member states of Western Europe, labeled the EU‐15 countries. The EU‐15 group of member states includes all countries that were in the European Union prior to 2004, namely the following fifteen countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.