This study assesses the degree of financial integration for a selected number of new EU member states between … themselves and with the euro zone. Within the framework of a factor model for market returns, we measure integration as the … amount of variance explained by the common factor relative to the local components. We show that this measure of integration …

on enlargement. Considering the drastic shift particularly in the security landscape, the EU re-gained the enlargement … dynamic to safeguard wider peace and stability. This paper will analyze the different stages of the EU enlargement, suggesting … united continent based on practical achievements and mutual solidarity. The enlargement process, being the most successful …

more differentiated approach to the enlargement of the European Union (EU) compared to ten years ago. An older story of V4 … functioning as a role-model concerning transformation and integration is still present in the framework and appearance in the …

first aspire to EU membership under missile fire. Much like Moldova and Georgia, it sees its current status of association … with the EU as a precursor to accession. The 28 Feb­ruary application was a call for help from the dreadful war. Initial …, but the EU leaders do not hold forth the prospect of swift accession. This restraint results from the experience that …

The economic indicators of the new member states of the EU that joined after 2004 have been generally positive. In this … showing progress towards catching up with the EU average, and a less progressive group, whose pace of convergence is …

The twenty years since the Eastern Enlargement of the EU in 2004 have generally borne out the hopes that at the time … steadily converged with those in the EU15. The substantial initial income gaps did lead to very substantial labour migration … other issues this should be addressed as the EU considers a reinforced cohesion policy and a likely renewed wave of eastern …

Twenty years after the EU accession of the Visegrád countries-- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary - we …