[Actually, the financial and economic dialogue with the accession countries could be incorporated into the regular process of European policy coordination and surveillance, with special emphasis on the monitoring of transition periods, specific challenges to policy and administrative capacity.
Changeover to the euro will eventually follow, when a sufficient degree of structural convergence can guarantee the desired price stability in an environment marked by an irrevocably fixed exchange rate and a centralised monetary policy.] Conclusion Having set out the specific policy challenges facing the accession countries consequent on accession, transition and convergence, I am coming to the end of this address.