Even with this year’s marked contraction of some central and eastern European countries’ economies, their accession to the EU boosted its overall economic growth, with the European Commission estimating that GDP in the new member states increased by extra 1.75 percentage points in the period 2004-2009.
Даже при значительном сокращении экономик некоторых стран центральной и восточной Европы, их принятие в ЕС поддержало их общий экономический рост.