Abstract
The accession of the eight former socialist countries to the European Union in 2004 (and further two in 2007) was preceded and also followed by intensive debates on the supposed effect of this accession to the labour standards in the fifteen “Old Member” states. This contribution, however, takes a somewhat different viewpoint, in light of the debate on the future of labour law in Europe. It not only takes the perspective of a so-called transitional country in the course of and after the accession to the European Union. It also encourages the search for viable solutions drawn from the pre-transition experience of Eastern European countries, without neglecting the opposite substance of centralized planned economies and market economies.
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