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One view is that the post-communist countries are still in transition. This is the consensual view of Europe’s political elites who, in the early 1990s, decided that the outcome of the revolutions of 1989 and those that soon followed in the Soviet Union should be transitions into western-type market economies and democracies. In the early 1990s candidate countries were given a long lead time to prepare for admission to the European Union (EU). In 2004 the first group of new market economies and democracies were admitted, though full access to the labour markets in some older EU member states was deferred until 2012. The countries are henceforth expected to continue their transitions.
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Roberts, K. (2016). Youth Cultures and the Formation of a New Political Generation in Eastern Europe. In: Schwartz, M., Winkel, H. (eds) Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385130_3
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