Abstrakt
The research conducted in this work challenges more conventional views that Central and East European (cee) countries are driven by finan- cial and materialistic concerns in their attitudes towards the adoption of the Euro. It argues that neither indicators of economic benefits, nor the distributive impacts which the adoption of the Euro is likely to bring to domestic societies provides an adequate explanation for accession into the Eurozone.
Instead, this work argues that the dominant factor driving the decision of cee states to enter the Eurozone is based on domestic perceptions of the entire European integration process (socio-political and economic) by political elites and wider publics. This line of argumentation, while surely controversial, is empirically accurate and this work provides evidence of the validity of this argument by testing it on the case of the Czech Republic.