Now that the European Council has given the green light to opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova … neither compromises on the Copenhagen criteria for EU membership nor shortcuts along the path to acces­sion. What is more …. In a bid to overcome the dilemma between geopolitics and integration policy, the European Commission is currently …

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue …

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue …

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue …

countries. We start by outlining EU democracy promotion during accession, with a particular focus on political conditionality … inconsistencies which characterize the EU’s application of democratic conditionality. A final part illustrates these points by … focusing on the EU’s democratic conditionality towards the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The conclusion reads that the EU did …

This book examines the integration of trade unions from the six biggest countries of the EU's Eastern enlargement of EU …

new member countries actually entered the EU. German linked employer-employee data allow to observe the relation of …This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of … Eastern Enlargement …

The paper evaluates the impact the EU Eastern enlargement in 2004 had for the economic performance of NUTS2 region … that overall, the EU enlargement had a positive impact for the regional GDP of these border regions. However, when looking … region of Lower Bavaria has profited from the EU enlargement, the Italian region of of Friuli-Venezia Giulia reveals a weaker …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …