The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the … international competitiveness of the Central and Eastern European countries …

Eastern Europe, there was also a visible spatial differentiation of competitiveness between individual units. Cluster analysis …Creating the competitiveness of voivodeships is a difficult and complicated process; the effect is a specific … competitiveness of territorial units, thanks to the use of the components of the European Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) and the …

Innovation and the associated digitization of the global economy are becoming the foundation of competitiveness and … development and implementation of economic policy and the targeting of investment activities in the EU. A major opportunity … digitization and innovation of enterprises in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which are among the group of …

This chapter offers a framework to analyse the impact of EU membership on economic ("means"), institutional ("ways …") and social ("ends") convergence of EU11 countries to the frontier. It identifies the channels through which this impact … works: trade, investment, finance, migration and institutions. Using this framework, the analysis finds that EU membership …

Balkan countries, the third enlargement area is formed by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in Eastern Europe. Ever since Russia …Now that the European Council has given the green light to opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova … Russia. Rather, a new chapter of enlargement policy is beginning in the shadow of war. After Turkey and the six Western …