countries of South-Eastern Europe into the wider European economy as well as the global economy. Central to this discussion is …

coincided – at least temporally, if not causally – with a 'temporary freeze' in the EU's enlargement towards the region. Against …Integration with the European Union has been an important driver of economic, political and social transformation in … this backdrop, this paper seeks to investigate the role of EU conditionality on economic reforms and convergence in the …

coincided – at least temporally, if not causally – with a ‘temporary freeze' in the EU's enlargement towards the region. Against …Integration with the European Union has been an important driver of economic, political and social transformation in … this backdrop, this paper seeks to investigate the role of EU conditionality on economic reforms and convergence in the …

from the perspective of the EU integration and the EU as a knowledge based economy. Specifically, paper addresses the …

, Central and South Eastern European countries that joined the EU after 2004. We find that these EU11 countries have benefitted … particularly from membership of the internal market because of their high degree of openness and their strong trade integration … within the EU. The analysis is conducted with the macroeconomic model QUEST that distinguishes between all EU member states …

importance of cross-country coordination of fiscal policies within the EU. All the CEE-5 respond to a fiscal expansion abroad …

This paper analyses the extent of agricultural competition between EU-15 countries and CEECs during the period 1995â …. The results indicate that Mediterranean countries (Greece, Italy and Spain) have little to fear from EU enlargement to …€“2005 in the light of future EU membership. Finger and Kreinin's index is computed with the BACI database provided by CEPII …

European Union (EU). It focuses on the relationship between the quality of domestic public pension schemes and household … savings for old age in the EU member and candidate countries. The study was conducted in two stages. The first stage examined …