and Slovenia. We only deal with the CEECs including Bulgaria and Romania whose accession is postponed until 2007 or 2008, according to the latest declarations by EU officials. Because of data limitations, we restrict our sample of Mediterranean economies to five countries: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey.
The socio-demographic contrasts between the 13 new metropolitan regions are relatively small compared to those observed in other European countries. At the national level, territorial disruption occurs more within regions than between them.
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